Registered Nurse Tele/ Progressive Unit FT

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Paducah (KY); On-site; USD 64,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Maternity and Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave (pets)

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement plans with company match

Work Experience Education

Job summary

Baptist Health Paducah is hiring a full-time Registered Nurse for the 7P-7A shift in a 41-bed intermediate care unit. The RN will care for medical-surgical patients with cardiac dysrhythmias and hemodynamic changes, coordinating care and leading teams to uphold nursing standards.

The unit focuses on myocardial infarction care, post-CABG/valve replacements, pacemakers, and related therapies. Baptist Health offers strong benefits and supports equal employment opportunities.

Qualifications

• Current RN licensure recognized by the Kentucky State Board of Nursing is required.

Responsibilities

• Prescribes, delegates, and coordinates nursing care of patients.
• Participates in patient and family teaching and provides leadership by working with the care team to maintain professional nursing standards.

Skills

Registered Nurse

Cardiac monitoring

Team collaboration

Education

RN license

Job description

Summary Job Description: BE PART OF OUR TEAM!!! Full-time/ 7P-7A Baptist Health Paducah Located in Paducah, KY Unit is a 41-bed intermediate-level care unit, delivering care to medical-surgical patients with cardiac dysrhythmias respiratory illness and/or significantly altered hemodynamics which require cardiac monitoring. The most common diagnoses/surgeries include coronary artery disease requiring treatment (NSTEMI or at risk for developing a STEMI); postcritical care myocardial infarctions (STEMI); post-coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG)/valve replacements; postcardiac intervention procedures; temporary and permanent pacemakers; chest pain, congestive heart failure, antiplatelet therapy, respiratory failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and anti-arrhythmic/hemodynamic infusions. The RN prescribes, delegates, and coordinates nursing care of patients; participates in patient and family teaching; and provides leadership by working cooperatively with ancillary, nursing, and other patient-team personnel in maintaining standards for professional nursing practice in the clinical setting. Creates a positive customer service environment.

Requirements:

• Current RN licensure recognized by the Kentucky State Board of Nursing is required.

Benefits:

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match
• Work Experience Education

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, 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.

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.

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