RN-PRN

Baptist Health; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Baptist Health in Lexington, KY is seeking a Registered Nurse to join the Post‑Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) on the second shift. This PRN position focuses on patient assessment, care planning, direct care, and safe recovery after surgery.

The RN PACU will supervise on other staff as needed, participate in quality initiatives, and support a healing environment. On‑call weekends and holidays rotate. Requires Kentucky RN license and BLS; ACLS/PALS/NRP as required.

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN license.
• Bachelor's or associate degree in nursing from an accredited program.
• If an associate degree holder has <10 years of experience, enroll in a BSN within 12 months and complete within 5 years.
• BLS certification required; must obtain within 30 days if not current.
• ACLS/PALS/NRP and dysrhythmia class as required by department.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients’ needs.
• Develop patient care plans.
• Provide direct patient care.
• Manage patient care delivery.
• Demonstrate leadership skills.
• Support for quality care.
• Foster a healing environment.
• On‑call weekends/holidays by rotation.
• Supervise and delegate to PCTs, LPNs, unit secretaries, and students.

Skills

KY RN License

Leadership

Clinical assessment

Care planning

Education

Bachelor's or Associate degree in nursing

BLS Certification

Job description

Summary Job Description

Registered Nurse‑PACU PRN I Second Shift PACU I Lexington, KY The Post‑Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) is a specialized hospital unit where patients are closely monitored and cared for immediately following surgical or procedural interventions requiring anesthesia. The PACU is critical for ensuring patient safety and comfort during the initial recovery period, addressing potential complications, and transitioning patients to the next phase of care.

Description RN PACU

• Assessment of patients’ needs.
• Development of patient care plans
• Provision of direct care.
• Management of patient care delivery.
• Demonstrate leadership skills.
• Support for quality care.
• Customer relations and healing environment.
• On call requirement weekends/holidays picked by rotation.
• Operating Room Nurses provide care and support to patients before, during and after surgery.
• Clinical decision‑making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking and creativity.
• Must possess ability to supervise and delegate appropriate work to Patient Care Techs, Licensed Practical Nurses, Unit Secretaries, and Students.

Requirements RN PACU

• Current RN licensure and work permit in Kentucky.
• Bachelor's or an associate degree in nursing from an accredited college/university.
• Applicants with an associate degree in nursing and less than 10 years of experience must enroll within 12 months of hire in a bachelor’s degree program and must have achieved the degree within 5 years.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification is required.
• If not already certified, must obtain BLS within 30 days of their hire date.
• ACLS/PALS/NRP and successful completion of dysrhythmia class as required by department of assignment.

Benefits

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About Baptist Health

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.