Summary
Job Description:
BHMG
Pediatrics
Job Summary
The Registered Nurse (RN) in the clinic/practice setting serves as a licensed, professional nurse, responsible for direct patient care, clinical decision-making, patient education, and coordination of care in collaboration with healthcare providers. The RN triages patients, assesses needs, administers treatments, and provides nursing interventions, ensuring safe and high-quality care. The RN plays a critical role in patient advocacy and care planning, serving as a key resource for both patients and clinical staff. This role requires strong clinical judgment, critical thinking, and the ability to work autonomously within the nursing scope of practice.
Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures Required:
Associate's degree in nursing or higher from an accredited RN program
Active RN license in the state of practice (Kentucky, Indiana, etc.)
Basic Life Support via the American Heart Association within 90 days of hire, if not already obtained. Some RN positions require ACLS certification. Please seek departmental guidelines.
Skills Required
- Associate's degree in nursing or higher from an accredited RN program
- Active RN license in the state of practice (e.g., Kentucky, Indiana)
- Basic Life Support (AHA) within 90 days of hire
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) (some RN positions may require)
What We Do
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 nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 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 the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 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 nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
