Weekly Hours: 24
Status: Part Time
Shift: Mid Shift 11a - 11p
Emergency Department:
The Emergency Department (ED) at Baptist Health La Grange provides quality care for patients of all ages and conditions ranging from acute musculoskeletal injuries, to stoke, or resuscitating cardiac arrests. The pace and patient acuity of the department varies on any given day or hour, with an average of 40 visits daily. The department is proud of playing a large role in being a certified chest pain center, primary stroke center, and Pathway recognized. Previous Emergency Department experience is preferred but new graduate nurses are welcome.
Assists the nursing staff by performing selected nursing procedures and routine duties in caring for patients.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
The following is a summary of the major functions of this individual's job. He or she may perform other duties, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below, and specific duties may change from time to time.
Assessment and Planning
Implementation
Organization
Culture of Excellence
Performance Improvement
Corporate Compliance
Attendance
Safety Compliance
Minimum Education, Training and Experience
Work Experience
Education
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.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
