Referral RN - Palliative Care
PRN - as needed/variance in schedule
The Palliative Care Referral RN will work with the Palliative Care team to support clinical staff and physicians in the management of the continuum of care for palliative care patients. This includes assisting with patient evaluation, level of care determination, patient management, and goals of care conversations. The RN will assist with the education of staff and physicians. Including assisting with completing advance directives and EMS DNR forms.
Requirements:
Associate's degree in nursing required.
Active RN license through the Kentucky Board of Nursing required.
Two years of acute care experience required.
Must obtain CHPN within 3 years of hire.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) preferred.
One year of hospice/palliative care 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.
