Unit Overview: 5H,Post Operative Surgical Care Telemetry unit. | $30,000 Sign-On Bonus for qualifying candidates

5H is a 20-bedpost operative surgical acute care, telemetry unit. The unit specializes in the colorectal surgery patient population with comprehensive ERAS protocols that have great quality outcomes. 5H also serves the general surgery population, complex patients with multiple co-morbidities & MDRO patients while also treating stable cardiac patients. 5H accommodates patients from the adult to geriatric population. Points of access for this population can be from multiple origins including outpatient surgery, emergency department, transfers within the hospital, direct admits from physician offices and other outlying facilities. The purpose of this unit is to provide great quality outcomes and care to all patients through a multidisciplinary team approach.

Shift: Full-time, Nights

Job Description:

• The Registered Nurse implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as awhole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness.
• Employee honorspatients 'mind, body, and spirit by respecting human dignity and the uniqueness of each individual.
• Nursingpractices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies andprocedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines.
• Clinical decision-making incorporates all fourphases 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 exemplarfor compassion, acceptance, respect, and empathy honoring nursing as a distinct discipline and supporting anenvironment focused on healing and wellness.
• As a clinical nurse, this individual spends majority of his/hertime (> 50%) coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit through: provisionof nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments; facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities;provision of patient and family-centered education; care coordination and individualized treatment planning asapplicable, 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 musthave 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.