RN PRN Telemetry Step Down Unit

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 72,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health Louisville is seeking a Staff RN for 6 East Telemetry on a PRN basis. The role provides intermediate-level care for adult and geriatric patients, including stroke, COPD, heart failure, and post‑surgical diagnoses.

You will act as a care coordinator within a fast‑paced unit and collaborate with the team to deliver high‑quality, patient‑ and family‑centered care. Applicants must hold an active Kentucky RN license, obtain BCLS within 90 days, and ACLS within six months (one year for

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN License.
• BCLS required within 90 days of employment.
• ACLS required within six months for experienced staff nurses and within one year for new graduate nurses.

Responsibilities

• Provide intermediate-level care for adult and geriatric patients on telemetry units.
• Serve as care coordinator on the unit and collaborate with the team to meet patient needs.
• Support fast-paced, patient- and family-centered care across the telemetry units.

Education

Active Kentucky RN License

BCLS Certification

ACLS Certification

Job description

Summary Job Description:

Baptist Health strives to cultivate a close-knit, positive and professional environment that encourages our employees to want to come to work every day. When you choose Baptist, you have an opportunity to play a role in providing compassionate, quality care that makes a difference in the lives of our patients and promotes joy throughout our communities.

Staff RN – 6 East Shift: 1st Status: PRN. Baptist Health Louisville has seven Telemetry units in the main hospital: 4 South, 4 North, 4 East, 5 North, 6 South, 6 North, and 6 East. Each unit consists of 21 private rooms. The staff provides intermediate-level care for adult and geriatric patients with a variety of medical diagnoses such as stroke, COPD, congestive heart failure, and post-surgical. Each unit fosters teamwork, empowering the RN as care coordinator to meet the needs of our patients. While each unit has a unique culture and patient population, all are fast-paced and provide high-level patient and family-centered care. Learning opportunities are new every day on our telemetry units. New Graduate Nurses are welcome to apply for these units.

Minimum Education, Training, and Experience:

• 1. Active Kentucky RN License
• 3. BCLS Required within 90 days of employment.
• 4. ACLS will be required within six months for experienced staff nurses and within one year for new graduate nurses.

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.

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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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