Freestanding Emergency Department Float Registered Nurse PRN Days

BHS • Louisville, KY

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About The Position

The Registered Nurse works PRN days and floats among Baptist Health’s freestanding emergency department and urgent care locations in Kentucky and Indiana. The nurse implements the nursing process for patients of all ages, from infancy through geriatrics, and provides care consistent with Kentucky Nursing Laws and organizational policies and procedures. The role promotes positive patient outcomes and quality care, collaborates with the interprofessional team, and contributes to a healthy professional practice environment through involvement in unit-based and hospital shared governance councils. Nurses use national professional nursing standards, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and appropriate nursing judgment, and participate in continuous professional development and lifelong learning.

Requirements

• Active Kentucky RN license.
• Associate’s degree in nursing.
• BCLS certification.
• ACLS certification.
• PALS certification.
• Availability to float among current freestanding ED and urgent care locations in Kentucky and Indiana.

Responsibilities

• Assess and reassess patients.
• Develop plans of care using appropriate evidence-based standards of care.
• Provide care consistent with policies, procedures, current evidence-based professional standards of practice, and Baptist Health Louisville’s nursing mission, vision, values, and model of care.
• Evaluate patient responses to treatment.
• Apply critical thinking, clinical reasoning, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Collaborate with the interprofessional team to enhance patient outcomes.
• Participate in unit-based and hospital shared governance councils and contribute to continuous professional development.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Associate degree