Under the direction of the Family Medicine Residency Director, the LPN/RN will provide assistance in the implementing and interpretation of support services, policies and objectives. Performs procedures that require a nursing license. Working knowledge of procedural nursing skills and policies, office routines and procedures, knowledge of all equipment utilized within the department and a comprehensive understanding of other departments in the acute care area such as reception, lab and x-ray. Provides coordinated care to specific patients by developing, monitoring and evaluating interdisciplinary care. Through collaborative patient care management of targeted patient goals and priorities will be assessed with maximum utilization of medical resources to be achieved. Develops, monitors and evaluates the efficiency of interdisciplinary teamwork and collaborative care outcomes.
Associates degree from an accredited school of nursing. Kentucky LPN/RN license required. BLS required.
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
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