RN Mother Baby

Saint Joseph Medical Center - East Lexington • Lexington, KY

10d • $30 - $44

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) delivers compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to support patients’ well-being and recovery in the Mother Baby practice setting. The RN performs assessments, makes critical decisions about standard, urgent, or emergent interventions, carries out skilled procedures, and implements or modifies patient care plans using evidence-based practice and standards of care. The role includes nursing care coordination, patient and family education, discharge planning, and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team. The RN also protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights; administers medications, IV therapy, and treatments according to policy; and evaluates progress toward desired outcomes. The nurse is responsible for acquiring the knowledge and skills needed for the practice setting.

Requirements

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