Pre-Post Charge Nurse Baptist Surgery Center Eastpoint
40 Hours Weekly, Full Time, Dayshift
Are you a passionate nurse ready to take the next step in your leadership career? As a Charge Nurse, you will play a vital role in coordinating patient care, supporting team members, and ensuring smooth daily operations within our Pre/Post Surgical department. You will serve as a clinical leader and trusted resource for staff, helping create a safe, efficient, and patient-focused environment.
Working closely with the Nurse Manager, the Charge Nurse assists with patient care coordination, staffing support, team development, and quality improvement initiatives. This role is ideal for a nurse who thrives in a fast-paced setting, demonstrates strong clinical expertise, communicates effectively, and enjoys mentoring others while delivering exceptional patient care.
The successful candidate is organized, adaptable, and committed to fostering teamwork, patient safety, and positive outcomes for patients and their families.
Experience and Education Requirements:
Two years relevant patient-care experience required.
Active Kentucky RN license required
BCLS required
CNOR Preferred
Prior management experience preferred
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.
