Job Description: JOB TITLE: Registered Nurse, Short-Stay Unit Position Overview: Registered Nurse | $30,000 Sign-On Bonus for qualifying candidates Unit Overview: 2F is a 19 bed Observation telemetry unit specializes in short stay and fast turn around of surgery, cardiac, urology and gastric patients with a focus on ERAS protocols. This unit serves our Bariatric Center of Excellence patients. The patient population is transferred from ED and PACU. Shift: Full-time, Nights Job Description: The Registered Nurse implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as awhole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness.
- Employee honorspatients 'mind, body, and spirit by respecting human dignity and the uniqueness of each individual.
- Nursingpractices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies andprocedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines.
- Clinical decision-making incorporates all fourphases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines.
- The Registered Nurse is an exemplarfor compassion, acceptance, respect, and empathy honoring nursing as a distinct discipline and supporting anenvironment focused on healing and wellness.
- As a clinical nurse, this individual spends majority of his/hertime (> 50%) coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit through: provisionof nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments; facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities;provision of patient and family-centered education; care coordination and individualized treatment planning asapplicable, etc.
Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures Required:
- Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an accredited college/university or an associate degree with a minimum of ten (10) years' experience required. (In lieu of a bachelor's degree and less than ten years'experience, an associate degree in nursing will be acceptable for initial hire with the understandingthat the individual must be enrolled within 12 months in a bachelor's degree program and must haveachieved the degree within 5 years.)
- Basic Life Support
- ACLS/PALS/NRP and successful completion of dysrhythmia class as required by department ofassignment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in nursing from accredited college/university.
- Previous experience on Labor/Delivery unit, ICU, Med-Surge.
Benefits:
- Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
- Company paid Maternity and Paternity leave
- Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
- PTO Sell Back Program
- Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
- Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!
Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
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