RN Observation Unit FT Nights

Baptist Health; New Albany, Northern (IN, KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health Floyd Emergency Department Observation Unit is seeking a Registered Nurse for full-time night shifts (7pm-7am). The unit operates 29 beds and cares for patients expected to stay under 24 hours; new grads welcome. Eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $25,000 and competitive benefits.

Located near Louisville, KY, at 1850 State Street, New Albany, IN 47150. Responsibilities include direct patient care from admission to discharge, with collaboration across the on-shift team to meet

Qualifications

• Active Indiana RN license or compact state license required.
• BLS for healthcare provider required.
• ACLS for Healthcare provider required within 12 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct, comprehensive nursing care from admission to discharge.
• Collaborate with on-shift team to meet patient needs.
• Monitor patients in the Observation Unit, including chest pain and arrhythmias.

Skills

Direct patient care

Team collaboration

Clinical nursing

Education

RN license (Indiana or compact)

Job description

Summary (3) 12-hr shifts/wk. Rotates every 4th weekend Holidays as required

Job Description

Seeking Registered Nurse! Baptist Health Floyd, Emergency Department Observation Unit Full-time (36 Hours Weekly), Nights (7pm-7am) Benefit Eligible $$ Up to $25K Sign On Bonus Eligible for Experienced External Applicants Only! $$

Job Duties

In this role, the RN will be responsible and accountable for direct comprehensive nursing care for the patient from admission to discharge. The Registered Nurse will function as an on-shift team member providing direct patient care to meet the needs of patients, families, and co-workers.

About the Unit

The Observation Unit is a 29-bed unit affiliated with the Emergency Department and observes patients who are expected to be in the hospital less than 24 hours. Nurses in this unit care for a variety of patients including chest pain, cardiac arrhythmias, heart catheterizations, laparoscopic cholecystectomies, UTIs, and DVTs. The unit is staffed with a provider between the hours of 7 AM and 5 PM each day of the week to provide support and high-level care. New Graduate RNs welcome.

Qualifications

• Current Indiana or compact state RN license required.
• BLS for healthcare provider required.
• ACLS for Healthcare provider required (obtained within 12 months of hire).

EOE.

Baptist Health is a Pathway to Excellence® designated organization. We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits. We are conveniently located 10 minutes from downtown Louisville at 1850 State Street, New Albany, IN 47150.

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.

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