RN Labor and Delivery

CommonSpirit Health • Lexington, KY

21d

About The Position

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will deliver compassionate, high-quality, individualized care that supports patients’ well-being and recovery. You will make critical assessments, perform skilled procedures, and implement patient care plans while collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal outcomes. The role requires keen assessment skills, critical thinking, a patient-first mindset, urgency, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment.

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

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

• Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for patient care in the identified practice setting.
• Assess and analyze patient problems and conditions, using critical decision-making to determine the need for standard, urgent, or emergent interventions.
• Implement and 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