The Registered Nurse provides compassionate, patient-centered nursing care while supporting the physical, emotional, and overall well-being of each patient. The RN promotes a caring environment focused on healing, wellness, dignity, and respect for every individual.
Nursing practice is grounded in evidence-based care, current research, Baptist Health policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional nursing guidelines. The Registered Nurse uses clinical judgment, critical thinking, creativity, and the nursing process to assess patient needs, develop and implement individualized plans of care, and evaluate outcomes.
The RN works collaboratively with patients, families, nursing colleagues, providers, and other members of the healthcare team to promote safe, high-quality care. This role serves as a professional example of compassion, acceptance, respect, and empathy while contributing to a positive environment focused on healing and wellness.
Registered Nurse, RN
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.
