Registered Nurse, PRN

BHS • Lexington, KY

7d

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) delivers compassionate, evidence-based care designed to support healing and wellness. The RN coordinates, ensures, and provides direct patient care while creating an environment rooted in dignity, respect, and empathy. The role uses clinical expertise and critical thinking to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized care for patients across the lifespan.

More than 50% of the clinical nurse’s time is spent coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care. The position is in the 5A NICU at Baptist Health Lexington, a 32-bed private-room unit caring for high-risk neonates from 28 weeks to full term. This is a PRN, day-schedule position.

Requirements

• Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing from an accredited college or university, or an associate degree with a minimum of ten years’ experience.
• In lieu of a bachelor’s degree and with less than ten years’ experience, an associate degree in nursing is acceptable for initial hire, with enrollment in a bachelor’s degree program within 12 months and completion of the degree within five years.
• Basic Life Support certification, to be obtained within 30 days of hire.
• ACLS, PALS, NRP, and successful completion of a dysrhythmia class, as required by the department of assignment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments.
• Facilitate admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Provide patient- and family-centered education.
• Coordinate care and develop individualized treatment plans.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care.

Benefits

• Preventive Plan
• Retirement Plans
• Flimp Decisions, a personalized financial analysis and recommendation tool to help select a plan based on expected medical needs, premiums, out-of-pocket costs, and other plan features.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Associate degree