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Louisville, KYFull-time$7.25/hrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Baptist Health Louisville offers new graduate nurses a general nursing orientation, a trained unit preceptor, and a year-long residency program to support the transition from academic study to bedside practice. Nurses provide intermediate-level care to adult and geriatric patients across telemetry units, with unit specialties including bariatrics, neuro spine, dialysis, and cardiac services. The role is on-site and full-time.
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
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
Summary
Job Description:
Sign On Bonus Available
Baptist Health Louisville has wonderful opportunities for new graduate nurses.New Graduate nurses go through a general nursing orientation and then are assigned a trained preceptor who works with the new graduate on the unit to ensure a smooth transition to practice. We also enroll each new graduate nurse in ayear-longresidency program which further assiststhe move fromacademic setting to bedside practice.
Baptist Health Louisville has seven telemetry units in the main hospital with each unit hosting 21 all private rooms. Nurses provide intermediate-level care for adult through geriatric patients with a variety of different medical diagnoses. The units provide high-level, fast-paced, patient and family centered care. Our nurses acts as a family and patient resource to guide them through all stages of the patient's healthcare journey. Each unit has a specific focus such as bariatrics, neuro spine, dialysis or cardiac services which create a unique culture and fit for virtually every nurse, while still offering the opportunities to care for a wide-variety of monitored patients. Medical benefits are offered for positions working a minimum of 24 hours per week with an accelerated effective date. Baptist also offers our telemetry nurses clinical ladder and preceptor programs and opportunities which allow nurses to grow in both skill set and compensation.
If you are a new graduate nurse who is graduating this Fall/Winter please complete your application and attach a resume. The nurse recruiter will reach out to you after receiving your application to discuss areas of interest and to schedule interviews.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
R23055882
How this job compares
Set against the 55,323 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$7.25/hr
- Kentucky median$7/hr652 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr22,758 hourly ranges
This rate, $7.25/hr, is close to the Kentucky median midpoint ($7/hr) — in the middle half of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in Kentucky.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,339 open Registered Nurse jobs in Kentucky and 55,323 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Aya Healthcare, Inc.434 open
- Baptist Health (this employer)268 open
- Norton Healthcare137 open
- Experience
- Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (26,975 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 17,251 of the 55,323 open Registered Nurse jobs (31%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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