ED Observation Unit RN - Full-time Nights

Summary Job Description: The Registered Nurse (RN) implements the nursing process for all patients, from infancy through geriatrics, in accordance with Kentucky Nursing Laws, Baptist Health Louisville policies, and national professional standards. The RN is accountable for delivering safe, high-quality, evidence-based, patient-centered care that promotes positive outcomes. Responsibilities include performing and documenting comprehensive assessments and reassessments, developing individualized plans of care with measurable goals, and collaborating with inter-professional teams and community resources to ensure effective transitions of care. The RN implements physician orders, provides timely interventions, manages emergencies, educates patients and families, and practices safe medication administration. Evaluation of patient response is ongoing, with care plans modified accordingly and communicated clearly to the healthcare team. The RN applies clinical reasoning, establishes priorities, organizes workload, and provides accurate handoffs while delegating tasks appropriately. Serving as a role model and resource, the RN facilitates orientation of new staff, participates in shared governance councils, and supports process improvement. Committed to professional growth and lifelong learning, the RN embraces evidence-based practice and fosters a healthy practice environment, ensuring excellence in patient care and advancing the mission, vision, and values of Baptist Health Louisville. Minimum Education, Training, and Experience Required: 1. Active Kentucky License 2. BCLS 3. ACLS 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. 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 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 with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 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 more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing. NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.