Resource RN Emergency Services

CommonSpirit Health; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Saint Joseph Hospital, part of CommonSpirit Health, seeks an experienced Resource RN to provide comprehensive nursing care in an acute care setting in Lexington, KY. You will develop and implement care plans, assess patient needs, and coordinate with the care team to ensure quality outcomes.

The role emphasizes safe administration of medications, supervision of non-licensed staff, and adherence to regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Associates of Science Nursing and minimum one year of RN experience in an acute care facility.
• KY RN license at hire.
• BLS CPR required within 14 days.
• ACLS required within 90 days.
• PALS required within 6 months.
• TNCC required within 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Provide diverse professional nursing services and deliver quality patient care.
• Collaboratively develop, implement, and assess patient care plans.
• Direct care and delegate tasks to the patient care team.
• Educate patients, families, and staff on care plans and interventions.
• Ensure safe, effective perioperative care for surgical patients and maintain documentation.

Skills

Critical thinking

Patient care

Documentation

Delegation

Collaboration

Education

Associate of Science in Nursing

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

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

• Associates Of Science Nursing and Minimum one (1) year of experience as an RN in an acute care facility, upon hire or
• Registered Nurse: KY, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 Days and
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 - months and
• Trauma Nurse Core Course, within 12 - months and

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Science Nursing and Minimum one (1) year of experience as an RN in an acute care facility, upon hire
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph Hospital, a 433-bed hospital founded in 1877 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth as the first hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford, the mission to provide compassionate care to the underserved is still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital holds over two dozen national ranks and recognitions and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

Saint Joseph is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members 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.