Registered Nurse PRN, Dialysis

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Preventive Plan

Retirement Plans

Flimp Decisions

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Dialysis Unit in Lexington, KY. The role emphasizes patient-centered care, nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments in a 24/7 dialysis service environment.

You will coordinate admissions, transfers, discharges, and family education while upholding evidence-based practice and hospital policies. Licensure in Kentucky is required, with BLS and specialty certifications as applicable.

Qualifications

• Current RN licensure in Kentucky.
• Bachelor's or associate degree in nursing from an accredited college/university.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) must be obtained within 30 days of hire.
• ACLS/PALS/NRP and dysrhythmia class as required by department.
• Associate degree holders must enroll in a bachelor’s degree program within 12 months and complete within 5 years.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care and nursing rounds, assessments and treatments.
• Facilitate admission, transfer and discharge activities.
• Deliver patient and family-centered education.
• Coordinate care planning and ensure individualized treatment plans.

Skills

RN licensure

ACLS/PALS/NRP

Dysrhythmia interpretation

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Associate degree in nursing

Job description

Summary Job Description

Registered Nurse, Dialysis Unit Overview: Dialysis unit services all inpatients that require hemodialysis, therapeutic plasma exchange, or plasmapheresis during their hospital admission; either within the department and/or critical care areas. Dialysis services are available as needed 24/7. Shift: PRN, 1st Shift. Job Description: The Registered Nurse implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness. Employee honors patients 'mind, body, and spirit' by respecting human dignity and the uniqueness of each individual. Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines. Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines. The Registered Nurse is an exemplar for compassion, acceptance, respect, and empathy honoring nursing as a distinct discipline and supporting an environment focused on healing and wellness. As a clinical nurse, this individual spends majority of his/her time (> 50%) coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit through: provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments; facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities; provision of patient and family-centered education; care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable, etc.

Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures Required

Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky. Bachelor's or an associate degree in nursing from an accredited college/university. Basic life support (must be obtained within 30 days of hire). ACLS/PALS/NRP and successful completion of dysrhythmia class as required by department of Assignment. Those with an associate degree in nursing and less than 10 years of experience must enroll within 12 months of hire in a bachelor’s degree program and must have achieved the degree within 5 years.

Benefits

• Preventive Plan
• Retirement Plans
• Flimp Decisions
• Flimp Decisions will help you pick the best value plan option given your expected medical needs. The proprietary algorithm provides a personalized financial analysis and recommendation, considering both premium and expected out-of-pocket cost (copays, etc.), as well as other important plan features.

Please note: These benefits apply to PRN positions.

Work Experience Education

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health's eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health's employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health's physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post-offer, pre-employment drug testing. NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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