Registered Nurse L&D Delivery Team- Part Time, Nights
Status: Part Time
Shift: Third
About The Unit:
The Baptist Health Louisville Labor and Delivery Unit has 14 number of beds, 3 ORs, and an OB-ED, delivering over 3,000 babies each year. We work with four different private practice obstetric physician groups as well as the OB Hospitalist Group who runs the OBED and is in-house 24/7.
We have an active Maternal Fetal Medicine department collaborating in care of our high-risk maternal patients. Baptist Health Louisville has a level III NICU that takes babies down to 26 weeks gestation. Anesthesia in-house 24/7 as well. We take pride in our culture of teamwork, professionalism, and utilizing evidence-based practice.
Registered nurse implements the nursing process for each assigned to his/her care regardless of age (i.e. infancy to geriatric) and is responsible for the patient’s care. The registered nurse promotes positive patient outcomes and the delivery of quality patient care. The registered nurse collaborates with the inter-professional team to enhance patient outcomes. The registered nurse serves as a role model through actively participating in the process of continuous professional development and lifelong learning.
The Newborn Delivery Team is a team of Registered Nurses who attend each delivery in L&D to provide resuscitation support and primary newborn care during the time of delivery through the first two hours of life. When necessary, this team is supported by in-house neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, and partners with the NICU nursing staff.
Requirements:
Associate's degree in nursing required.
Active Kentucky RN License required.
Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required.
Neonatal Resuscitation Program Certification (NRP) required.
2 years previous experience in NICU, Newborn Nursery, or applicable Neonatal experience strongly preferred.
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.
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