Registered Nurse - Inpatient Wound Care
Part-Time 8a – 5p
Shift Times May Vary
Serve as the clinical resource and consultant for acute and rehabilitative for patients with selected disorders of the gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and integumentary systems, such as alterations in skin, wounds, draining wounds/fistulas, dermal wounds, ostomies, and incontinence.
Collaborates and consults with physicians, clinical staff, patients, and families to assist in developing and implementing the wound ostomy continence plan of care.
Serves as a resource to staff for patient care needs.
Assists in education of patients and families.
Participates in clinical research and evidence-based practice as it relates to wound Ostomy continence patient care.
Requirements:
Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree from an accredited institution or an Associate of Science in Nursing (ADN) degree from an accredited institution with Wound and Ostomy Care Certification.
Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN) - Wound and Ostomy Care Certification required within 2 years of hire.
Current unrestricted licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state of Kentucky required.
A minimum of five years of related experience is required for this position.
Basic Life Support (BLS) required within 90 days of hire.
Preferred Qualifications:
Recent experience in specialty preferred.
Benefits:
Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
Employee Assistance Program
Retirement plans with company match
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.
