Dayshift 5 days a week 8 hour days and every 4th weekend
RN Breast Care Mammography
Full Time 40 hours weekly dayshift
The Breast Center Registered Nurse works collaboratively with physicians, technologists, and staff to support the development and delivery of the Breast Center Program, with a primary focus on patient education, care coordination, and referral for patients with abnormal mammogram results. This role assists mammography and ultrasound technologists with operational activities and supports technologists, radiologists, and surgeons in managing patient care. The nurse demonstrates clinical proficiency by utilizing the nursing process to plan and implement care, prepares and recovers patients undergoing invasive procedures, and assists during procedures as needed. Responsibilities include providing breast health education to patients and the community, supporting performance improvement initiatives in collaboration with leadership and radiologists, and demonstrating strong organizational skills in program development and patient education.
Additionally, the nurse serves as a central point of communication between patients, radiologists, referring physicians, and surgeons, requiring excellent communication skills, judgment, and public relations abilities. For patients with abnormal mammograms, the nurse explains findings, contacts referring physicians, schedules follow-up imaging, coordinates surgical referrals, and provides decision-making support. The role includes contacting patients by phone regarding abnormal screening results, scheduling follow-up appointments, assisting Triage RNs as needed, and performing other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
Active Kentucky RN license; BSN preferred.
BCLS certified within 90 days of hire.
Two years relevant patient-care experience required.
Prior experience as charge nurse preferred
Exhibits growing knowledge of nursing theory and practice
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.
