Baptist Health Louisville currently has an opening for a Specialty Coordinator This progressive and unique role works directly with Emergency Room orientees and serves as a clinical resource during orientation and onboarding periods, providing guidance and support to ensure a successful transition into emergency nursing practice. The position communicates consistently with unit-based and program-based leadership regarding orientee progress, performance, and program needs within the Emergency Department. Responsibilities include collaborating with leadership, educators, and charge nurses to support and adjust onboarding plans as needed, while promoting consistency and standardization in orientation practices across the emergency specialty area.
In addition, this role contributes to the development and refinement of Emergency Department orientation pathways and tools, participates in the evaluation of orientee progression and overall program effectiveness, and supports continuous improvement initiatives related to onboarding and workforce development processes within the Emergency Department environment.
Requirements
Minimum of an associate degree in nursing required with a BSN required within two years of hire
Licensed Registered Nurse eligible to practice in Kentucky required
Three years of clinical experience with knowledge of emergency department operations
ACLS and BLS will be 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.
