RN ICU

CommonSpirit Health • Lexington, KY

9d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will deliver compassionate, high-quality care that supports patients’ well-being and recovery. You will provide individualized, comprehensive care by making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and implementing patient care plans. You will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team in a fast-paced environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. The role requires keen assessment skills, critical thinking, a patient-first mindset, urgency, and dedication to excellence.

The RN is responsible for acquiring the knowledge and skills needed for patient care in the identified practice setting. The role includes assessing patients and analyzing problems and conditions to determine the need for standard, urgent, or emergent interventions; implementing or modifying plans of care using assessment data, standards of care, and evidence-based practice; coordinating nursing care; providing appropriate patient and family education; and participating in discharge planning. The RN facilitates interdisciplinary partnerships, integrates ethical provisions into nursing practice, and protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights. The RN also administers medications, IV therapy, and treatments in compliance with policies and procedures, and evaluates progress toward desired patient outcomes.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Registered Nurse license in Kentucky, upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (CPR), within 14 days.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 days.

Responsibilities

• Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for patient care in the identified practice setting.
• Assess patients and analyze problems and conditions using critical decision-making 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: No Education Listed