LPN Float Emergency Dept
Part-timeElizabethtown, KYPart-time$7.25/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The LPN Float in the Emergency Department provides age-appropriate patient care under the direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse. The role follows the Kentucky Nurse Practice Act and Baptist Health Hardin policies and standards. The LPN assists with initial assessment data and reassessments, evaluates progress toward goals, communicates with the RN, includes patients and families in data collection, and performs treatments and administers medications within the LPN scope of practice.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Benefits
Full job description
Experience Required
None
Minimum Education Required
High School Diploma/G.E.D.
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
20
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
Summary
Job Description:
LPN Float - Emergency Department
$5,000 Sign-On Bonus for External Candidates
Part-Time 7p - 7a
The Licensed Practice Nurse is responsible for age-appropriate patient care under the direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse. Their scope of practice is determined by the Kentucky Nurse Practice Act and established Baptist Health Hardin and Nursing Service policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
Assists in gathering initial assessment data (excluding admission physical assessment).
Contributes to re-assessments.
Evaluates patients progress toward established goals, communicating with RN as needed. Includes patients, families and significant other in data collection.
Performs treatments and administers medications per policies and procedures and within scope of LPN practice.
Requirements:
Completion of an accredited Licensed Practical Nurse program leading to licensure.
Current unrestricted licensure as a Licensed Practical Nurse in the state of Kentucky required.
Basic Life Support (BLS) required within 90 days of hire.
Must obtain mandatory nonviolent crisis prevention training to be completed prior to end of orientation period and maintained annually.
Benefits:
Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
Employee Assistance Program
Retirement plans with company match
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!
Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
"EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to r ace, color, national origin, gender, s exual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES
Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056."
Job Type
Part time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
R26108752
How this job compares
Set against the 9,828 open Licensed Practical Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$7.25/hr
- Kentucky median$27–32/hr89 hourly ranges
- US median$28–35/hr5,280 hourly ranges
This rate, $7.25/hr, is 75% below the Kentucky median midpoint ($29/hr) — in the middle half of Licensed Practical Nurse hourly ranges in Kentucky.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 165 open Licensed Practical Nurse jobs in Kentucky and 9,828 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Signature Healthcare39 open
- Maxim Healthcare21 open
- Norton Healthcare16 open
- Experience
- Licensed Practical Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (2,567 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,507 of the 9,828 open Licensed Practical Nurse jobs (15%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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