RN Emergency

Saint Joseph Medical Center - East Lexington; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Saint Joseph East is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to deliver compassionate, high-quality patient care in Lexington, Kentucky. You will perform assessments, implement care plans, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support recovery and outcomes.

Ideal candidates hold a Nursing Diploma with current KY RN licensure, BLS, and the ability to achieve ACLS/PALS/TNCC within the specified timelines. This role offers a supportive environment within a leading community hospital.

Qualifications

• Diploma of Nursing from an accredited program.
• BSN must be completed within 5 years of hire.
• KY RN license upon hire.
• BLS/CPR required upon hire.
• ACLS within 90 days.
• PALS within 6 months.
• TNCC within 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Assesses patients and plans care using critical thinking and evidence-based practice.
• Performs standard, urgent or emergent interventions as needed.
• Administers medications, IV therapy, and treatments per policy.
• Delivers patient education and discharge planning.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to optimize outcomes.
• Monitors progress and adjusts care to achieve outcomes.

Skills

Critical thinking

Compassionate care

Assessment skills

Team collaboration

Education

Diploma in Nursing

BSN within 5 years

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You’ll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Assumes responsibility for acquiring knowledge and skills necessary for patient care in the identified practice setting.
• Performs assessment and analyzes patient problems and conditions using critical thinking skills to determine need for standard, urgent or emergent interventions.
• Implements and/or modifies plan of care using assessment data, standards of care and evidence based practice inclusive of nursing care coordination, appropriate patient and family education, and discharge planning. Facilitates interdisciplinary partnership in patient care.
• Integrates ethical provisions in nursing practice and delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Administers medications, IV therapy, and treatments in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Evaluates progress towards attainment of desired patient outcomes.

Job Requirements

Required

• Diploma Of Nursing Graduate of an accredited school of nursing, upon hire and
• Bachelors Of Science New hire RNs have 2 years from hire date to enroll in BSN program and it must be completed within 5 years of hire, 24 - months
• 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
• Trauma Nurse Core Course, within 12 - months and

Preferred

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph East, a 217-bed, full-service, community hospital located in a convenient setting in Lexington, Kentucky. Saint Joseph East also includes the Women's Hospital at Saint Joseph East which is dedicated to supporting the well-being of women in Central and Eastern Kentucky and serves a 16-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

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 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.