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Resource RN

CHI
Lexington, KY Full Time
POSTED ON 7/12/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/10/2026
Job Summary And Responsibilities

As a Resource RN, you will provide diverse professional nursing services, delivering quality patient care, regulatory requirements, and nursing scope of practice. You are responsible for collaboratively developing, implementing, and assessing patient care plans.

Every day you will directly engage in patient care, utilizing critical thinking to assess, plan, coordinate, and delegate tasks to the patient care team. You will continuously educate patients, families, and staff, implementing interventions for optimal outcomes and managing issues in a physician's absence.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate accountability for care quality, with authority to direct care and utilize resources efficiently, including comprehensive perioperative care for surgical patients.

  • Conducts care assessments and interprets assessment data to determine care needs and constraints in meeting these needs.
  • Successfully completes system-based and hospital specific competencies.
  • Maintains accurate documentation of observations, treatments, teaching, medications, care given, patient response, and integrates into plan of care.
  • In collaboration with patients and families (as defined by the patient) the Registered Nurse is responsible for evaluating, planning, directing and administering care to the patient. Implements a plan of care based upon established standards of care/practice, policies, and procedures, incorporating cultural, religious, psychosocial, physical, and age-related issues.
  • Possesses knowledge of medications, and administers safely and accurately.
  • Appropriately delegates and supervises routine technical functions to non-licensed and licensed personnel.

Job Requirements

Required

  • Diploma Of Nursing Graduation from an accredited/approved school of nursing and 1-3 years Minimum one year of experience as an RN in an acute care facility, upon hire
  • Registered Nurse: KY, upon hire and
  • Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 Days and
  • Trauma Nurse Core Course, within 12 - months and
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 - months

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph East, a 217-bed, full-service, community hospital located in a convenient setting in Lexington, Kentucky. Saint Joseph East also includes the Women's Hospital at Saint Joseph East which is 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 CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

Pay Range

$30.00 - $43.50 /hour

Salary : $30 - $44

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