Telemetry Nurse

About This Role

This full-time Registered Nurse position is on a 22-bed Med/Surg Telemetry unit, specializing in general medical surgical and telemetry patients with complex care needs, including those with pneumonia, ESRD, stroke, CHF, chest pain, and post-operative conditions. The role involves implementing professional nursing practice focused on holistic patient care and a healing environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional nursing services and patient care in various settings under general supervision
• Follow established nursing processes, including patient assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation
• Ensure adherence to hospital and department policies, nursing procedures, standards, and practices
• Incorporate critical thinking and creativity in clinical decision-making across all four phases of the nursing process
• Assess and identify patient needs and implement appropriate interventions considering patient populations per department scope of service
• Delegate nursing care activities and provide supervision
• Establish and maintain a plan for the delivery of nursing care
• Assure that nursing care interventions and activities are directed to resolve problems
• Perform technical aspects of care competently
• Access medication storage areas as required for job tasks
• Follow Hospital and Departmental Policies and Procedures

Requirements

• Current RN licensure recognized by the Kentucky State Board of Nursing
• Associate Degree in Nursing with a Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Completion and maintenance of BLS
• ACLS & PALS (or ENPC) within 6 months of hire
• NIHSS within 3 months of hire
• Successful completion of all competencies as identified on the departmental nurse competency grid

Benefits

• Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• PTO Sell Back Program
• Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
• Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
• Retirement with Company Match

Important Details

• Schedule: 32 to 40 weekly hours (0.8 FTE - 1.0 FTE)

About the Company

Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. It consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 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 two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility.