RN Progressive Care Telemetry Unit

** Summary
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* Job Description:

** Job Description
** Registered Nurse (RN)**:
**** Post operative surgical acute care, telemetry unit | $15,000 Sign-On Bonus for qualifying candidates
** Unit Overview:
** 5G/H is a 42 bed telemetry unit specializing in complex patients with multiple co-morbidities, palliative care, colorectal surgeries with progressive ERAS protocols, and MDRO patients. The patient population is transferred from ICU, ED and PACU.
** Shift******:
**** Full-time, Nights
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* Job Description:

*** The Registered Nurse (RN) implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness.
* Employee honors patients 'mind, body, and spirit by respecting human dignity and the uniqueness of each individual.
* Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines.
* Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines.
* The Registered Nurse is an exemplar for compassion, acceptance, respect, and empathy honoring nursing as a distinct discipline and supporting an environment focused on healing and wellness.
* As a clinical nurse, this individual spends majority of his/her time (> 50%) coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit through: provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments; facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities; provision of patient and family-centered education; care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable, etc.
** Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures

Required:

*** Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky.
* Bachelor's or an associate degree in nursing from an accredited college/university.
* Those with an associate degree in nursing and less than 10 years of experience must enroll within 12 months of hire in a bachelor’s degree program and must have achieved the degree within 5 years.
* Basic life support
* ACLS/PALS/NRP and successful completion of dysrhythmia class as required by department of Assignment.
** Benefits:
*** Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
* Company paid Maternity and Paternity leave.
* 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.
** Work Experience
**** Education**###
* If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!*### Baptist Health is an
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* employer.
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