RN Emergency Services
About the Role
As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. You will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate within an interdisciplinary team in a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.
To succeed, you will need keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will support patient recovery and fuel your career advancement.
Responsibilities
- Assume responsibility for acquiring knowledge and skills necessary for patient care in the identified practice setting.
- Perform assessments and analyze patient problems using critical thinking to determine need for standard, urgent, or emergent interventions.
- Implement and/or modify the plan of care using assessment data, standards of care, and evidence-based practice, including nursing care coordination, patient and family education, and discharge planning.
- Facilitate interdisciplinary partnership in patient care.
- Integrate ethical provisions in nursing practice and deliver care in a manner that preserves patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
- Administer medications, IV therapy, and treatments in compliance with policies and procedures.
- Evaluate progress toward attainment of desired patient outcomes.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing (required upon hire).
- Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in Kentucky (required upon hire).
- Basic Life Support (BLS) - CPR certification (required upon hire).
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification (required within 90 days).
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification (required within 6 months).
- Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) certification (required within 12 months).
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification (preferred upon hire).
About the Workplace
Saint Joseph Mount Sterling is a 42-bed, not-for-profit, faith-based community hospital founded in 1918. Formerly known as Mary Chiles Hospital, it is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky. Part of CHI Saint Joseph Health and CommonSpirit Health—a non-profit, Catholic health system—it is dedicated to advancing health for all people. CommonSpirit Health employs approximately 175,000 staff and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians across 140 hospitals and 2,200 care centers in 24 states.
Pay
$30.00 - $43.50 per hour.