Full Time 36 weekly hours, night shift - three 12 hour shifts, 7P-7A
Sign On Bonus eligible for experienced Cardiac or Open Heart Nurses!
The CN is an entry-level management position responsible for the
coordination of care on designated shifts. He/she will provide leadership to
the staff members of the unit in the area of patient care.
A) As a Registered nurse, he/she implements the nursing process for each
patient regardless of age (i.e. infancy to geriatric) assigned to his/her care
and is responsible for the patient’s care within the parameters of the
Kentucky Nurse Practice Act. The charge nurse promotes positive patient
outcomes, quality of care and initiates change through active involvement in
unit-based and hospital shared-governance councils.
B) National Professional Nursing Standards serve as guidelines for the
charge nurse as he/she utilizes critical thinking skills and exercises
appropriate nursing judgment. The charge nurse will collaborate with a
multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes. Also, the charge nurse
will serve as a role model by actively participating in the process of
continuous professional development, teaching and learning across the
healthcare continuum.
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 functions may change from time to time.
1. Assists the Nurse Manager with operational activities of unit
2. Assists the Nurse Manager with management of patient care delivery on the unit
3. Demonstrates Clinical proficiency utilizing the nursing process
4. Demonstrates organizational skills in providing patient care
5. Collaborates with the nurse manager to support performance improvement activities
6. Participates in development of nursing staff
7. Leadership and critical thinking
Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required:
A. Active Kentucky RN license
B. Two years relevant patient care experience required.
C. BCLS Required.
D. ACLS Required.
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.
