Registered Nurse Neuro Spine EMU Nights

Summary

Job Description

Registered Nurse Neuro Spine, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU)- Full Time, Nights Status:
Full Time

Shift: Third
* No Weekend Rotation Required*

The twenty-four-bed Neuroscience unit offers specialized nursing assessment and care to patients with both neurological and neurosurgical diagnoses. Typical patients include those with a diagnosis of stroke, post-op craniotomy, post-op discectomy and other back surgeries, as well as post-cerebral embolization. Unit nursing care is complemented by the expertise of two Neuroscience Coordinators. Integrated into 24 beds, is a 4 bed EMU that is dedicated to patients who meet criteria and referred by Epileptologist for planned admission for evaluation and localization of potential epileptic events through VTrM.

The Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) provides continuous video EEG monitoring for patients with seizure disorders. These patients require intensive, specialized nursing care, including:

• Continuous neurological assessment
• Rapid response to seizure activity
• Medication titration and withdrawal protocols
• Patient safety monitoring (fall risk, injury prevention during seizures)

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse Neuro Spine to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality care to patients, in alignment with Kentucky Nursing Laws and our organizational policies. You will play a critical role in promoting positive patient outcomes, enhancing the quality of care, and contributing to a collaborative professional environment.

Active participation in unit-based and hospital shared governance councils is expected to drive change and foster a supportive practice environment.

• Active Kentucky RN License required.
• Associate's degree in nursing required.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required.
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) required.

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.

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.

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