RN Observation Unit Weekend Only Days

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; New Albany (IN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Premium pay for WOW shifts

Job summary

Baptist Health Floyd in New Albany, IN, is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Emergency Department Observation Unit. This full-time role (36 hours weekly) requires weekend WOW shifts plus one weekday day shift, with premium pay.

The unit observes patients typically under 24 hours and handles cases such as chest pain, arrhythmias, and cath procedures; new graduates are welcome. Indiana/compact RN license, BLS, and ACLS within 12 months of hire are required.

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).

Responsibilities

• Provide direct comprehensive nursing care from admission to discharge.
• Function as an on-shift team member providing direct patient care to meet patient, family, and coworker needs.

Skills

Direct patient care

Team collaboration

Education

Indiana RN license (compact eligible)

ACLS certification

BLS certification

Job description

Summary 7a-7p Saturday & Sunday. (1) weekend off per quarter Job Description: Seeking Registered Nurse WOW+1! Baptist Health Floyd, Emergency Department Observation Unit Full-time (36 Hours Weekly), Days (7am-7pm) Weekend Only Work (WOW) + 1 Weekday Dayshift Benefit Eligible $$ Sign On Bonus Eligible for Experienced External Applicants Only! $$

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.

Position/Opportunity Highlights

• Work every weekend and receive PREMIUM PAY for WOW shifts.

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).

Baptist Health Floyd 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. EOE.

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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