Registered Nurse, RN

BHS•Lexington, KY

3d•Onsite

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 fostering 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, including nursing rounds, assessments, treatments, admissions, transfers, discharges, patient and family education, and care coordination. The position is on the Surgical-Telemetry/Orthopedic-Neuro-Spine unit (3GH) at Baptist Health Lexington. This 37-bed telemetry/medical-surgical unit specializes in, but is not limited to, orthopedic, neuro, and spine patients. It also serves as a secondary stroke unit and cares for general cardiac/telemetry patients. Patients are transferred from PACU, the ED, interventional areas, and direct admissions from physicians’ offices. The schedule is full-time, third shift (nights), with 12-hour shifts three days per week.

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 10 years’ experience.
In lieu of a bachelor’s degree and with less than 10 years’ experience, an associate degree in nursing is acceptable for initial hire, provided the employee enrolls in a bachelor’s degree program within 12 months and completes the degree within five years.
Basic Life Support certification; must 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 patient 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 across the lifespan.
Coordinate, ensure, and provide direct patient care.