LPN Surgical Telemetry Nights

Job Summary And Responsibilities

Job Summary And Responsibilities: This position is eligible for up to a $15,000 sign-on bonus and up to $24,000 Student Loan Assistance. As a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), you will provide compassionate nursing care to our residents, under the direction of a physician or Registered Nurse.

Every day, you will assess resident needs and deliver essential physical or psychosocial care. To be successful in this role, you will exhibit genuine compassion for patient well-being, an understanding of your critical role in ensuring their comfort, and the patience to explain procedures, answer questions, and maintain accurate documentation.

• Assumes responsibility for acquiring knowledge and skills necessary for patient care in the identified practice setting.
• Performs assessment and analyzes patient problems and conditions using critical decision making to determine need for standard, urgent or emergent interventions.
• Implements and/or modifies plan of care using assessment data, standards of care and evidence based practice inclusive of nursing care coordination, appropriate patient and family education, and discharge planning. Facilitates interdisciplinary partnership in patient care (as appropriate for an LPN).
• Integrates ethical provisions in nursing practice and delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Evaluates progress towards attainment of desired patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates effective on‑going observations and reassessment of patient/family and their response to the interventions and changes in condition.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing, upon hire
• Licensed Practical Nurse: KY, upon hire
• Basic Life Support – CPR, upon hire

Welcome to Saint Joseph East, a 217‑bed, full‑service, community hospital located in a convenient setting in Lexington, Kentucky. Saint Joseph East also includes the Women’s Hospital at Saint Joseph East which is dedicated to supporting the well‑being of women in Central and Eastern Kentucky and serves a 16‑bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of Common Spirit Health, a non‑profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people.

With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

$23.69 - $35.24 /hour