RN Emergency Services

CommonSpirit Health • Nicholasville, KY

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) delivers compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to support patients’ well-being and recovery. The role involves making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, implementing patient care plans, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal patient outcomes. The RN works in a fast-paced emergency care setting and is expected to demonstrate sound assessment and critical-thinking skills, urgency, and a patient-first approach.

The RN acquires the knowledge and skills needed for the practice setting; assesses and analyzes patient problems and conditions to determine appropriate standard, urgent, or emergent interventions; and implements or modifies care plans using assessment data, standards of care, and evidence-based practice. Care includes nursing coordination, patient and family education, and discharge planning. The RN supports interdisciplinary partnerships, protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights, administers medications, IV therapy, and treatments in accordance with policies and procedures, and evaluates progress toward desired outcomes.

Requirements

• Associate of Science in Nursing, required upon hire.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing; new-hire RNs must enroll in a BSN program within 2 years of hire and complete it within 5 years of hire.
• Registered Nurse license for Kentucky, required upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (CPR), required within 14 days.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, required within 90 days.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, required within 6 months.
• Trauma Nurse Core Course, required within 12 months.

Nice To Haves

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, preferred upon hire.

Responsibilities

• Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for patient care in the identified practice setting.
• Assess and analyze patient problems and conditions using critical-thinking skills to determine the need for standard, urgent, or emergent interventions.
• Implement or modify plans of care using assessment data, standards of care, and evidence-based practice.
• Coordinate nursing care and provide appropriate patient and family education and discharge planning.
• Facilitate interdisciplinary partnerships in patient care.
• Integrate ethical provisions into nursing practice and preserve and protect patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
• Administer medications, IV therapy, and treatments in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Evaluate progress toward desired patient outcomes.

What This Job Offers

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