RN Labor and Delivery
About The Position
As a Registered Nurse, you will provide compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to patients. You will make critical assessments, perform skilled procedures, implement patient care plans, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes. The role calls for strong assessment and critical-thinking skills, a patient-first mindset, urgency, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment. The position is at Saint Joseph East, a 217-bed community hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Its Women's Hospital supports women in Central and Eastern Kentucky and includes a 16-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing, upon hire.
- Registered Nurse license in Kentucky, upon hire.
- Basic Life Support (CPR), within 14 days.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 days.
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program, within 90 days.
- Strong assessment skills, critical thinking, a patient-first mindset, and the ability to work with urgency and dedication in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to provide 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, including nursing care coordination, patient and family education, and discharge planning.
- Facilitate interdisciplinary partnerships in patient care.
- Integrate ethical provisions into nursing practice 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
