Surgical Services Resource RN

CommonSpirit Health; Mount Sterling (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Saint Joseph Mount Sterling is seeking a Resource RN to provide diverse professional nursing services and coordinate comprehensive patient care.

You will engage daily in direct patient care, assess needs, and work with the care team to implement care plans. The role emphasizes clinical excellence, education for patients and families, and responsible resource management within a perioperative context.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited nursing program; RN licensure to practice in KY.
• Registered Nurse: KY license at hire.
• Basic Life Support (CPR) certification at hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 90 days of hire.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 6 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Provide diverse professional nursing services and patient care.
• Collaboratively develop, implement, and assess patient care plans.
• Engage in direct patient care daily using critical thinking to plan, coordinate, and delegate tasks.
• Educate patients, families, and staff; implement interventions for optimal outcomes.
• Direct care and oversight of resources, including perioperative care for surgical patients.
• Conduct assessments, document observations and treatments, and integrate into care plans.

Skills

Nursing care

Critical thinking

Patient education

Team coordination

Education

RN degree

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Resource RN, you will provide diverse professional nursing services, delivering quality patient care, regulatory requirements, and nursing scope of practice. You are responsible for collaboratively developing, implementing, and assessing patient care plans.

Every day you will directly engage in patient care, utilizing critical thinking to assess, plan, coordinate, and delegate tasks to the patient care team. You will continuously educate patients, families, and staff, implementing interventions for optimal outcomes and managing issues in a physician's absence.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate accountability for care quality, with authority to direct care and utilize resources efficiently, including comprehensive perioperative care for surgical patients.

• Conducts care assessments and interprets assessment data to determine care needs and constraints in meeting these needs.


• Successfully completes system-based and hospital specific competencies.


• Maintains accurate documentation of observations, treatments, teaching, medications, care given, patient response, and integrates into plan of care.


• In collaboration with patients and families (as defined by the patient) the Registered Nurse is responsible for evaluating, planning, directing and administering care to the patient. Implements a plan of care based upon established standards of care/practice, policies, and procedures, incorporating cultural, religious, psychosocial, physical, and age-related issues.


• Possesses knowledge of medications, and administers safely and accurately.


• Appropriately delegates and supervises routine technical functions to non-licensed and licensed personnel.

Job Requirements

Required

• Graduation from an accredited/approved school of nursing, upon hire


• 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

Preferred

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph Mount Sterling, a not-for-profit, faith-based hospital founded in 1918. Formerly known as Mary Chiles Hospital, Saint Joseph Mount Sterling serves as a 42-bed community hospital and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

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 employees 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.