Resource RN

Saint Joseph Hospital - Mount Sterling; Mount Sterling (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Saint Joseph Mount Sterling is a not-for-profit, faith-based hospital founded in 1918. Formerly known as Mary Chiles Hospital, it serves as a 42-bed community hospital and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

As a Resource RN, you will deliver diverse nursing services, develop and assess patient care plans, and collaborate with the care team to ensure high-quality outcomes. You will engage in ongoing education for patients, families, and staff, including perioperative care for

Qualifications

• RN license in Kentucky required upon hire.
• CPR certification required upon hire.
• ACLS to be completed within 90 days of hire.
• PALS to be completed within 6 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and assess patient care plans.
• Assess, plan, coordinate, and delegate tasks to the care team.
• Document observations, treatments, and patient responses accurately.
• Direct and supervise care ensuring adherence to standards and policies.

Skills

Critical thinking

Nursing assessment

Team coordination

Education

RN license (KY)

CPR certification

ACLS within 90 days

PALS within 6 months

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Resource RN, you will provide diverse professional nursing services, delivering quality patient care, regulatory requirements, and nursing scope of practice. You are responsible for collaboratively developing, implementing, and assessing patient care plans.

Every day you will directly engage in patient care, utilizing critical thinking to assess, plan, coordinate, and delegate tasks to the patient care team. You will continuously educate patients, families, and staff, implementing interventions for optimal outcomes and managing issues in a physician's absence.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate accountability for care quality, with authority to direct care and utilize resources efficiently, including comprehensive perioperative care for surgical patients.

• Conducts care assessments and interprets assessment data to determine care needs and constraints in meeting these needs.
• Successfully completes system-based and hospital specific competencies.
• Maintains accurate documentation of observations, treatments, teaching, medications, care given, patient response, and integrates into plan of care.
• In collaboration with patients and families (as defined by the patient) the Registered Nurse is responsible for evaluating, planning, directing and administering care to the patient. Implements a plan of care based upon established standards of care/practice, policies, and procedures, incorporating cultural, religious, psychosocial, physical, and age-related issues.
• Possesses knowledge of medications, and administers safely and accurately.
• Appropriately delegates and supervises routine technical functions to non-licensed and licensed personnel.

Job Requirements

Required

• Graduation from an accredited/approved school of nursing, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: KY, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 Days and
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 - months and

Preferred

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph Mount Sterling, a not-for-profit, faith-based hospital founded in 1918. Formerly known as Mary Chiles Hospital, Saint Joseph Mount Sterling serves as a 42-bed community hospital and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.