Baptist Health Pain Management Unit is seeking to hire a PRN RN. The registered nurse provides care for patients with acute and chronic pain. In this role, the registered nurse assists anesthesia physicians during procedures and ensures safe recovery post-procedure. Common treatments include epidural injections, trigger point injections, nerve blocks, and radio-frequency ablation, with some procedures involving conscious sedation.
The registered nurse implements the nursing process for patients across the lifespan and is accountable for care delivery in accordance with Kentucky Nursing Laws and organizational policies. This position promotes positive patient outcomes and quality care while supporting a collaborative practice environment through participation in shared governance. The nurse utilizes professional standards, critical thinking, and clinical judgment, collaborates with the interprofessional team, and demonstrates a commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
Candidates must hold an active Kentucky RN license, maintain current BCLS certification. ACLS preferred. One year of perioperative nursing experience is preferred.
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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.
