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Registered Nurse (RN) Med Surg Ortho

St. Elizabeth Healthcare

Florence, Kentucky

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Posted Aug 29, 2026 · Last seen active Aug 30, 2026

What this means for you

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is a community hospital, the kind of building where you learn every name fast. It's a night shift — quieter halls, a tighter crew, and your daylight hours back. Twelve-hour shifts compress the week — three days on, four days yours.

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Shift
Nights · 12-hour

About this role

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Engage with us for your next career opportunity. Right Here. Job Type: Regular Scheduled Hours: 36 Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do. Benefits That Support You We invest in you — personally and professionally. Enjoy: • Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days. • Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules • Retirement savings with employer match • Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities • Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs • Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility Job Summary: The best career is right here. St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Registered Nurse for a Med Surg Ortho unit located within the Florence, Kentucky hospital. Shift & Hours: Night shift, 7:00 am - 7:00 pm; Full-time, 36 hours weekly. Job Description: The best career is right here. The licensed registered nurse is a professional nurse who is responsible and accountable for providing evidence-based clinical care to designated patients utilizing the nursing process. This is accomplished by assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care according to established ethical/cultural codes and standards of nursing practices and working collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams to achieve patient outcomes. The registered nurse is responsible to delegate tasks appropriately to other licensed and unlicensed health care team members. Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background. Qualifications Education, Credentials, Licenses: Graduate from accredited School of Nursing. If eligible, must have a Compact (multi-state) License in their primary state of residence. Licensed to practice nursing in the state where work is being performed. Meets contact hour requirements for licensure, including all state-required courses. Focus of education promotes nurses’ ability to practice in clinical area assigned. Specialized Knowledge: Demonstrates knowledge of nursing theory, clinical practice standards, procedures, policies and competence in mathematical calculations associated with medication administration. Competent to independently perform safe nursing skills and procedures. Kind and Length of Experience: Successful completion of preceptorship and orientation to the facility and clinical area. Able to critically think and problem solve in routine and emergency situations. FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Right Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.

Skills for this role

Evidence Based Clinical CareNursing ProcessMedication AdministrationDelegation

Requirements

  • RN
  • Compact License
  • Nursing policy compliance
  • Direct patient care
  • Care plan evaluation
  • Nursing
  • RN License
  • Hospital
  • Internal mobility program
  • Inpatient

About the employer

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St. Elizabeth Healthcare
Community Hospital

You are looking at St. Elizabeth Healthcare’s Grant campus near Williamstown, Kentucky — a Magnet-designated hospital inside a system that has served Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio communities for more than 160 years. If you are a new graduate, you can…

Magnet® recognized

What reviewers appreciate

  • ANCC-accredited-with-Distinction Nurse Residency Transition Program for new grads
  • Competitive graduate-nurse base from day one plus NCLEX reimbursement and UWorld license
  • Magnet recognition at Grant and other St. Elizabeth campuses

What reviewers flag

  • Nurses frequently report pay lagging industry standards
  • Chronic understaffing cited as raising workload and hurting work-life balance
  • Mixed reports of micromanagement, favoritism, or toxic leadership pockets
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Living in Florence, KY

Florence offers a relaxed suburban setting in Northern Kentucky, just south of Cincinnati. Known for its friendly retail corridors and the iconic 'Florence Y'all' water tower along I-75, it appeals to nurses seeking quieter residential living with quick interstate access to major metro hospitals.

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State price level · Kentucky
10% below the national average
State index 90.2 (100 = national)
Median gross rent
$1,329/mo
rent and tenant-paid utilities
Median household income
$71,003/yr
all local households, not nurse pay

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024

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On your path

Med surg is open from year one. A broad first base while you learn which path pulls harder.

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