About this Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery role at Baptist Health
Summary
Job Description:
Registered Nurse – Labor and Delivery/Antepartum
Location: Baptist Health Lexington
Schedule: Full-time | 3rd Shift (Nights) | 12-hour shifts | 3 days per week
About Labor and Delivery: Labor and Delivery is a high risk specialized unit that provides care to pregnant individuals prior to and during labor, childbirth, and the immediate postpartum period. This unit has 17 private birthing suites, 5 Triage/PACU beds, 4 OR Rooms, 3 bed Obstetric Emergency Department care, and a specialized Antepartum unit that provides care for women with high-risk pregnancies and post-partum diagnoses needing supportive care.
Job Summary:
The Registered Nurse (RN) delivers compassionate, evidence-based care designed to support healing and wellness. In this role, you’ll coordinate, ensure, and provide direct patient care while creating an environment rooted in dignity, respect, and empathy. You will use your clinical expertise and critical thinking to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized care for patients across the lifespan.
As a clinical nurse, you’ll spend the majority of your time (>50%) coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care through:
- Conducting nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments
- Facilitating admissions, transfers, and discharges
- Providing patient and family-centered education
- Coordinating care and developing individualized treatment plans
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform comprehensive assessments and develop individualized care plans based on patient needs
- Administer medications and implement nursing interventions in accordance with best practices and hospital policy
- Communicate effectively with patients, families, and interdisciplinary team members to ensure coordinated care
- Monitor and document patient responses, revising care plans as needed
- Support a culture of safety, quality improvement, and compassionate service
- Mentor and support colleagues and new team members, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.
Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures Required:
- Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing from an accredited college/university or an associate degree with a minimum of ten (10) years’ experience required. In lieu of a bachelor’s degree and less than ten years’ experience, an associate degree in nursing will be acceptable for initial hire with the understanding that the individual must be enrolled within 12 months in a bachelor’s degree program and must have achieved the degree within 5 years.
- Basic Life Support (Must obtain within 30 days of hire.)
- ACLS/PALS/NRP and successful completion of dysrhythmia class as required by department of assignment.
Benefits:
- Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
- Identity Theft Protection
- Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
- Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
- Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
- PTO Sell Back Program
- Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
- Employee Support Fund
- Retirement with Company Match
Please note: These benefits are for our full-time positions. (32 weekly hours- 40 weekly hours.)
