RN Clinical/Surgical

Baptist Health; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health Medical Group in the St. Matthews area is seeking a registered nurse for Surgical Vascular Surgery. This full-time, first-shift position provides pre/postoperative nursing care, patient assessments and teamwork to ensure safe, high-quality care.

The role requires ASN, RN license, BLS, and surgical experience is preferred. If no surgical background, peri-op 101 training is required within 60 days of hire. Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer in Kentucky.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree - ASN required.
• RN surgical experience preferred.
• RN License required.
• BLS required.
• If no surgical experience, RN will need to take peri-op 101 course within 8 weeks (60 days) post hire. Required.
• RN, Surgical, Registered Nurse, Nurse.

Responsibilities

• Completes and documents initial and ongoing patient assessments based on population served.
• Pre/Post Op nursing care to patients before, during, and after surgery.
• Establishes specific, realistic and measurable goals.
• Develops an individualized plan of care/education for each patient/family upon admission.
• Initiates and participates in transitions of care in collaboration with hospital and community resources.
• Collaborates with inter-professional team and updates plan appropriately.
• Implements nursing actions in a safe, timely manner.
• Utilizes appropriate technology to provide safe care.
• Exercises clinical reasoning in care delivery.
• Implements physician orders in a timely manner.
• Manages emergency situations appropriately.
• Implements patient and family education plan.
• Prep patients for procedure
• Set up room for sterile procedures
• Monitor patients during procedure
• Assist Surgeon during sterile procedure

Education

ASN

RN License

BLS

Peri-op 101 course (within 8 weeks post hire)

RN, Surgical, Registered Nurse, Nurse

Tools

BLS

Job description

Summary Job Description:

Baptist Health Medical Group RN Surgical Vascular Surgery St. Matthews area Full Time/First Shift

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Completes and documents initial and ongoing patient assessments based on population served
• Pre/Post Op nursing care to patients before, during, and after surgery
• Establishes specific, realistic and measurable goals.
• Develops an individualized plan of care/education for each patient/family upon admission.
• Initiates and participates in transitions of care in collaboration with hospital and community resources.
• Collaborates with inter-professional team and updates plan appropriately.
• Implements nursing actions in a safe, timely manner.
• Utilizes appropriate technology to provide safe care.
• Exercises clinical reasoning in care delivery.
• Implements physician orders in a timely manner.
• Manages emergency situations appropriately.
• Implements patient and family education plan.
• Practices safe medication handling and administration.
• Collaborates with the inter-professional team.
• Prep patients for procedure
• Set up room for sterile procedures
• Monitor patients during procedure
• Assist Surgeon during sterile procedure

Minimum Education & Experience:

• Associate's degree - ASN required
• RN surgical experience preferred
• RN License required
• BLS required
• If no surgical experience, RN will need to take peri-op 101 course within 8 weeks (60 days) post hire. Required.
• RN, Surgical, Registered Nurse, Nurse

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.

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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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