BHMG
General Surgery
(Note: This position pays on the LPN pay scale)
The Nurse is responsible for collaborating with the physician in managing and providing for age-appropriate patient care. This includes the immediate, short-term nursing care needs of patient, as well as, planning for long-term needs. The nurse’s scope of practice is determined by the Kentucky Nurse Practice Act and established procedures and standards of practice.
Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures Required:
High school diploma or equivalent
Licensed Practical Nurse with an active, unrestricted license in the state of Kentucky
Two years of experience required
Medical office experience preferred
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.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
