Inpatient Registered Nurse - PRN
Lexington, Kentucky
RN
Posted Aug 16
- Shift
- Days
- Unit
- Hospice
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Role
- Schedule
- Days
- Term
- Per Diem
- Setting
- Hospice
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 2+ years
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About this role
As a Bluegrass Care Navigators' Hospice Team member, you will be a part of a team providing care and support to patients and their families who no longer receive treatments to cure their terminal illness but instead choose care to improve their comfort and quality of life. Our service allows our team members to focus on one patient at a time providing care where the patient calls home. While this often is a house or apartment, we also provide care at nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals.
If a patient’s care needs are too complicated for home care or require a higher level of attention from nurses and other experts, we can provide care at one of our Hospice Care Centers. At Bluegrass Care Navigators we are committed to a work setting that treats all team members with fairness, dignity, and respect. We offer our team members an opportunity to grow, to develop professionally, and to work in a team environment.
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Schedule
PRN - Sunday-Saturday 9:00am-5:30pm Position
Summary
The Inpatient Hospice Registered Nurse (RN) provides skilled, professional, and compassionate nursing care to patients and their families within the inpatient hospice unit and hospital settings. The RN delivers care in accordance with physician orders, the hospice plan of care, regulatory requirements, and organizational policies. This role involves assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care, including symptom management, end-of-life support, and patient/family education. Position
Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited school of professional (registered) nursing.
- Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse through the Kentucky Board of Nursing.
- Minimum of two (2) years of general nursing experience preferred; hospice, home health, medical-surgical, or critical care experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in pain management; IV therapy skills preferred.
- Demonstrates clinical competence and the ability to manage emotionally challenging situations with patients and families while respecting diverse lifestyles and beliefs.
- Maintains current CPR certification
- Self-directed with the ability to work independently while exercising appropriate judgment.
Bluegrass Care Navigators is committed to creating a diverse environment and complies with Equal Employment Opportunity and Title VI guidelines. Employment with Bluegrass Care Navigators, as well as our services, are available to all qualified individuals. We embrace and celebrate differences of persons of varying age, ethnicity, gender, disability, race, color, sex (including sex characteristics, intersex traits, pregnancy or related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, sex stereotypes, religion, national origin, political affiliation, socioeconomic and family status, geographic region, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.
It is the policy of Bluegrass Care Navigators to implement fair and effective personnel policies and to require all employees to serve the organization's mission and values.
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Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited school of professional (registered) nursing.
- Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse through the Kentucky Board of Nursing.
- Minimum of two (2) years of general nursing experience preferred; hospice, home health, medical-surgical, or critical care experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in pain management; IV therapy skills preferred.
- Demonstrates clinical competence and the ability to manage emotionally challenging situations with patients and families while respecting diverse lifestyles and beliefs.
- Maintains current CPR certification
- Self-directed with the ability to work independently while exercising appropriate judgment.
Place
- City
- Lexington, Kentucky
- Metro price level
- 7% below the national average
Lexington area index 92.9, where 100 is the national average.
Lush rolling horse pastures meet a lively college-town energy in Lexington, home to the University of Kentucky and its major medical campus. The city blends Bluegrass charm with growing healthcare opportunities, making it an appealing spot for RNs seeking a mid-size city with Southern warmth.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities.
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You would be joining a Lexington nonprofit that has been tax-exempt since February 1981 and now hires under Bluegrass Care Navigators. The work sits in two lanes: hospice in the community, and PACE — all-inclusive care so Kentuckians 55 and…
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