Float RN

CommonSpirit Health • London, KY

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About The Position

As a Registered Nurse on the Float/Flex Team at Saint Joseph London, you will deliver compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to patients. You will assess patients, perform skilled procedures, implement and evaluate care plans, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes. The role requires a positive attitude, reliability, strong assessment and critical-thinking skills, a patient-first mindset, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment.

The Registered Nurse evaluates, plans, directs, and administers care in collaboration with patients and their families. Care is based on established standards, policies, and procedures and incorporates patients’ cultural, religious, psychosocial, physical, and age-related needs. The RN maintains accurate documentation, administers medications safely, and appropriately delegates and supervises routine technical functions. The role also requires completing system-based and hospital-specific competencies.

Requirements

• Associate of Science in Nursing.
• At least two years of RN experience in an acute care facility, upon hire.
• For Critical Care areas, two years of Critical Care experience, upon hire.
• For Telemetry areas, one year of Telemetry experience, upon hire.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing; new-hire RNs have two years from hire to enroll in a BSN program, which must be completed within five years of hire.
• Kentucky Registered Nurse license, upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (CPR) certification within 14 days.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification within 90 days.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification within six months.
• Trauma Nurse Core Course within 12 months.

Nice To Haves

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification, upon hire.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient care needs and interpret assessment data, including constraints to meeting those needs.
• Complete system-based and hospital-specific competencies.
• Document observations, treatments, teaching, medications, care provided, and patient responses accurately, and incorporate this information into the plan of care.
• Evaluate, plan, direct, and administer patient care in collaboration with patients and their families.
• Implement plans of care according to established standards of care and practice, policies, and procedures, while accounting for cultural, religious, psychosocial, physical, and age-related needs.
• Administer medications safely and accurately.
• Delegate and supervise routine technical functions performed by licensed and non-licensed personnel.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree