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Full time 36 weekly hours, night shift
About the Unit:
4South is one of eight telemetry units in the main hospital.4 South consists of 21 all private rooms. Nurses provide intermediate-level care for adult and geriatric patients with a variety of different medical diagnoses.The unit provides high-level, fast-paced, patient and family centered care.New Graduate Nurses welcome.
Job Duties:
The Telemetry Nurse assesses and identifies patient needs and implements appropriate interventions.The Nurse establishes and maintains a plan for the delivery of nursing care; assures that nursing care interventions and activities are directed to resolve problems; and performs technical aspects of care competently. Vascular Telemetry nurses must have strong critical thinking skills.The nurse acts as a family and patient resource to guide them through all stages of the patient’s healthcare journey.
Minimum Education, Training, and Experience
Active Kentucky RN License
BCLS Required
ACLS 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.
