Registered Nurse Vascular Thoracic/Critical Care Step Down Unit- Full Time, Nights
Status: Full Time
Shift: Third
*Employment Bonus Available for Eligible Applicants*
About the Unit:
Join our dynamic Vascular Thoracic Unit, a highly specialized 21-bed unit dedicated to providing exceptional care to high-to-intensive patients following vascular and thoracic surgeries. Our fast-paced environment supports patients who have undergone procedures such as carotid surgery, lower extremity bypass, aneurysm repairs, arterial line placements, AKOS, and chest tube insertions.
As a Registered Nurse in the Vascular Thoracic Unit, you will implement the nursing process for patients across all age groups, from infancy to geriatrics. You will ensure patient care aligns with Kentucky Nursing Laws and our organizational policies and procedures. Your role will focus on promoting positive patient outcomes, delivering high-quality care, and driving change through active involvement in unit-based and hospital shared governance councils. You will contribute to a supportive and professional practice environment.
Requirements:
Active Kentucky RN License.
Associate's degree in nursing.
Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification required.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification required.
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.
