RN, Healthcare Nursing

Job Summary And Responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well‑being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient‑first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast‑paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Assumes responsibility for acquiring knowledge and skills necessary for patient care in the identified practice setting.
• Performs assessment and analyzes patient problems and conditions using critical decisioning to determine need for standard, urgent or emergent interventions.
• Implements and/or modifies plan of care using assessment data, standards of care and evidence based practice inclusive of nursing care coordination, appropriate patient and family education, and discharge planning. Facilitates interdisciplinary partnership in patient care.
• Integrates ethical provisions in nursing practice and delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Administers medications, IV therapy, and treatments in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Evaluates progress towards attainment of desired patient outcomes.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: KY, upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 days
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 months

Saint Joseph East is a 217‑bed, full‑service community hospital located in Lexington, Kentucky. It includes the Women’s Hospital at Saint Joseph East dedicated to supporting the well‑being of women in Central and Eastern Kentucky and serves a 16‑bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of Common Spirit Health, a nonprofit Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. The system serves 24 states with a total of 140 hospitals and over 2,200 care centers and employs approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

$37.20 – $37.20 /hour