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Facility: Baptist Health Shelby Hospital
Location: Alabaster, AL
Shift: 7A - 5:30P Call Required
Join our Growing Team at Baptist Health Shelby Hospital in Alabaster, AL! At Baptist Health Shelby Hospital, we’re proud to be a leading 252 bed acute care facility dedicated to delivering exceptional healthcare with a community-focused touch. Located in the heart of Alabaster - one of Alabama’s fastest growing and most desirable places to live - we serve over 30,000 emergency visitors annually and offer a wide range of advanced clinical services, including cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, orthopedics, urology, robotics surgery, and more.
Our State-of-the-art facilities feature cutting-edge technology such as 3 Tesla MRI, robotic surgical systems, and 256-slice CT scanner - empowering top tier care. Recognized for excellence with accolades like ACC Cath Lab Accreditation, Transcatheter Valve certification, and Primary Stroke Center Designation, we’re committed to growth, innovation, and community well-being.
Whether you’re an experienced specialist or just beginning your healthcare journey, Baptist Health Shelby offers a dynamic environment where your skills make a real difference. Join us in a welcoming, fast-paced setting with easy commutes, ample free parking, and a team that feels like family. Be part of a hospital that’s shaping the future of healthcare in Alabama - Where your career can thrive and your community can flourish!
Apply today to connect with a recruiter and let us help you find your perfect fit!
Baptist Health Shelby Hospital Offers Great NEW Competitive Pay and Great Benefits Package that Includes:
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Paid Time Off (up to 5 weeks to start)
- Life Insurance
- Extended Leave Plan (ELP)
- Family Care (childcare, elder care, pet care)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Pet Insurance
- Car Insurance
- Educational Benefits including tuition reimbursement & monthly payments to help pay down any graduated school debt
ALL Benefits Start Day One
Administers patient care in an area in a hospital or inpatient setting where patients have an advanced illness or injury that routinely requires timely, intense, and complex care to stabilize and support the patient’s medical condition. These areas require a lower caregiver-to-patient ratio and highly trained team members with advanced skills.
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
- Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance.
- Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
- Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused action.
- Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
- Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
- Observes, monitors, and assesses patients’ condition, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls Physician or takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.
- Assesses patient’s needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses. Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
- Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.
- Functions as a patient and family advocate.
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit/ department.
- Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/or nurse clinician.
- Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage the unit/department.
- Serves as a role model for staff and supports the hospital and nursing department’s goals and strategies.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, assesses the data reflective of the patient’s status, and interprets the necessary information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his or her age specific needs.
- Coordinates the care and delegates as appropriate to other team members on a defined group of patients.
- Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner meeting all required and regulatory standards. This includes but is not limited to patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety.
- Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and use of patient care/unit equipment as defined by unit/department-specific requisite skills.
- Prioritizes patient care in an ongoing manner in accordance with Evidence-Based Practice Standards of Care.
- Practices effective problem identification and resolution.
- Delegates tasks and duties to healthcare team members in accordance with the patient’s needs and the team member’s capabilities and qualifications.
- Communicates appropriate information regarding patient condition or unit concerns to other health care team members.
- Demonstrates caring practices by providing a compassionate and therapeutic environment for patients and their families.
- Demonstrates awareness of legal issues and patients’ rights.
- Collaborates with the education department and nursing leadership team to effectively transition and support new team members and/or students.
- Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.
- Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedure.
Specific Essential Function for trained Advanced Care Registered Nurse ECMO Specialist Job responsibilities
- Registered Nurses who have received specialized training and are able to function as an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenator (ECMO) Specialist provide daily staffing for Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) services.
- Specialists work under the direction of unit leadership, intensivist services, perfusion services, and in collaboration with bedside staff to ensure that the patient on ECMO has adequate perfusion, corrects for proper acid-base balance, and provides for hemodynamic stability within ordered parameters.
- Nursing ECMO Specialists work in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and communicate with physicians, perfusionists and other members of the healthcare team to interpret, adjust and complete treatment specific care for the ECMO patient.
- ECMO specialists are expected to perform required technical skills with efficiency, accuracy and safety while anticipating, troubleshooting, and managing crises and emergency situations according to policy and procedure.
- Performs scheduled, unscheduled, and emergency ECLS in the hospital setting.
- Operates all ECMO equipment under the direction of MD/perfusion providers.
- Monitors and optimizes the ECMO circuit and related equipment during the management period.
- Accurately administers blood products and medications through the ECMO circuit when ordered.
- Manages any equipment when connected in-line with ECMO circuit.
- Management of ECLS during transport.
- Ensures continuous ECLS coverage.
- Attends Mandatory Quarterly Simulations.
Other Related Functions
- The professional nurse contributes to the knowledge and skills of others, and the continuous improvement of the quality of health care practice and organizational outcomes.
- Participates and may lead unit level and/or organizational level committees of nursing practice and performance improvement.
- Participates in department and organizational peer review, mentoring, and coaching regarding professional practice or role performance.
- Practices efficient use of supplies and maintains a clean, safe, and organized work area.
- Attends staff development in-services, department meetings, and/or nursing committee meetings.
- Partners with the nursing leadership team to identify professional development needs.
- Assumes responsibility for one’s own professional development and continuing education.
Qualifications
Education/Training
- Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
- Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit/department.
Licensure/Certification
- Maintains current State of Alabama RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license.
- Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.
- ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas. NRP required for Neonatal Intensive care Unit (NICU).
Experience
- 1 year experience required unless approved by AVP level or above.
Position Summary:
Facility: Baptist Health Shelby Hospital
Location: Alabaster, AL
Shift: 7A - 5:30P Call Required
Join our Growing Team at Baptist Health Shelby Hospital in Alabaster, AL! At Baptist Health Shelby Hospital, we’re proud to be a leading 252 bed acute care facility dedicated to delivering exceptional healthcare with a community-focused touch. Located in the heart of Alabaster - one of Alabama’s fastest growing and most desirable places to live - we serve over 30,000 emergency visitors annually and offer a wide range of advanced clinical services, including cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, orthopedics, urology, robotics surgery, and more.
Our State-of-the-art facilities feature cutting-edge technology such as 3 Tesla MRI, robotic surgical systems, and 256-slice CT scanner - empowering top tier care. Recognized for excellence with accolades like ACC Cath Lab Accreditation, Transcatheter Valve certification, and Primary Stroke Center Designation, we’re committed to growth, innovation, and community well-being.
Whether you’re an experienced specialist or just beginning your healthcare journey, Baptist Health Shelby offers a dynamic environment where your skills make a real difference. Join us in a welcoming, fast-paced setting with easy commutes, ample free parking, and a team that feels like family. Be part of a hospital that’s shaping the future of healthcare in Alabama - Where your career can thrive and your community can flourish!
Apply today to connect with a recruiter and let us help you find your perfect fit!
Baptist Health Shelby Hospital Offers Great NEW Competitive Pay and Great Benefits Package that Includes:
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Paid Time Off (up to 5 weeks to start)
- Life Insurance
- Extended Leave Plan (ELP)
- Family Care (childcare, elder care, pet care)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Pet Insurance
- Car Insurance
- Educational Benefits including tuition reimbursement & monthly payments to help pay down any graduated school debt
ALL Benefits Start Day One
Administers patient care in an area in a hospital or inpatient setting where patients have an advanced illness or injury that routinely requires timely, intense, and complex care to stabilize and support the patient’s medical condition. These areas require a lower caregiver-to-patient ratio and highly trained team members with advanced skills.
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
- Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance.
- Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
- Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused action.
- Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
- Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
- Observes, monitors, and assesses patients’ condition, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls Physician or takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.
- Assesses patient’s needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses. Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
- Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.
- Functions as a patient and family advocate.
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit/ department.
- Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/or nurse clinician.
- Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage the unit/department.
- Serves as a role model for staff and supports the hospital and nursing department’s goals and strategies.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, assesses the data reflective of the patient’s status, and interprets the necessary information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his or her age specific needs.
- Coordinates the care and delegates as appropriate to other team members on a defined group of patients.
- Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner meeting all required and regulatory standards. This includes but is not limited to patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety.
- Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and use of patient care/unit equipment as defined by unit/department-specific requisite skills.
- Prioritizes patient care in an ongoing manner in accordance with Evidence-Based Practice Standards of Care.
- Practices effective problem identification and resolution.
- Delegates tasks and duties to healthcare team members in accordance with the patient’s needs and the team member’s capabilities and qualifications.
- Communicates appropriate information regarding patient condition or unit concerns to other health care team members.
- Demonstrates caring practices by providing a compassionate and therapeutic environment for patients and their families.
- Demonstrates awareness of legal issues and patients’ rights.
- Collaborates with the education department and nursing leadership team to effectively transition and support new team members and/or students.
- Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.
- Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedure.
Specific Essential Function for trained Advanced Care Registered Nurse ECMO Specialist Job responsibilities
- Registered Nurses who have received specialized training and are able to function as an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenator (ECMO) Specialist provide daily staffing for Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) services.
- Specialists work under the direction of unit leadership, intensivist services, perfusion services, and in collaboration with bedside staff to ensure that the patient on ECMO has adequate perfusion, corrects for proper acid-base balance, and provides for hemodynamic stability within ordered parameters.
- Nursing ECMO Specialists work in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and communicate with physicians, perfusionists and other members of the healthcare team to interpret, adjust and complete treatment specific care for the ECMO patient.
- ECMO specialists are expected to perform required technical skills with efficiency, accuracy and safety while anticipating, troubleshooting, and managing crises and emergency situations according to policy and procedure.
- Performs scheduled, unscheduled, and emergency ECLS in the hospital setting.
- Operates all ECMO equipment under the direction of MD/perfusion providers.
- Monitors and optimizes the ECMO circuit and related equipment during the management period.
- Accurately administers blood products and medications through the ECMO circuit when ordered.
- Manages any equipment when connected in-line with ECMO circuit.
- Management of ECLS during transport.
- Ensures continuous ECLS coverage.
- Attends Mandatory Quarterly Simulations.
Other Related Functions
- The professional nurse contributes to the knowledge and skills of others, and the continuous improvement of the quality of health care practice and organizational outcomes.
- Participates and may lead unit level and/or organizational level committees of nursing practice and performance improvement.
- Participates in department and organizational peer review, mentoring, and coaching regarding professional practice or role performance.
- Practices efficient use of supplies and maintains a clean, safe, and organized work area.
- Attends staff development in-services, department meetings, and/or nursing committee meetings.
- Partners with the nursing leadership team to identify professional development needs.
- Assumes responsibility for one’s own professional development and continuing education.
Qualifications
Education/Training
- Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
- Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit/department.
Licensure/Certification
- Maintains current State of Alabama RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license.
- Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.
- ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas. NRP required for Neonatal Intensive care Unit (NICU).
Experience
- 1 year experience required unless approved by AVP level or above.
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Get Your CGFNS Certification Before Applying
Baptist Health, like most U.S. hospital systems, requires internationally trained nurses to hold CGFNS certification or an equivalent credential evaluation before a visa petition can move forward. Starting this process early prevents delays after you receive an offer.
Target Baptist Health's High-Volume Nursing Units
Baptist Health consistently posts openings in medical-surgical, critical care, and emergency nursing. Applying to these units, where staffing demand runs highest, puts you in front of the hiring managers most likely to initiate sponsorship conversations.
Understand the EB-3 PERM Timeline Before Accepting an Offer
EB-3 sponsorship for nurses requires a PERM labor certification from the DOL before USCIS adjudicates the petition. That process typically adds six to twelve months before you can file the I-140, so factor that into your start-date expectations when negotiating with Baptist Health.
Confirm State Licensure Reciprocity for Your Target Location
Baptist Health operates across multiple states, and RN licensure does not automatically transfer. Confirm whether your home-state license qualifies for endorsement or whether you need to pass the NCLEX-RN in the target state before your first day.
Ask Directly Which Entities Handle Petition Filing
Large health systems often route visa petitions through a centralized HR or immigration team rather than the hiring unit. When you receive an offer from Baptist Health, ask whether the employing entity files directly with USCIS or works through a designated immigration counsel, so you know the right contact for status updates.
Browse Open Baptist Health RN Roles on Migrate Mate
Registered Nurse openings at Baptist Health with active sponsorship activity are filterable by location and visa type. Use Migrate Mate to surface those listings directly and track which Baptist Health facilities are posting roles compatible with your credential profile.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Baptist Health sponsor H-1B visas for Registered Nurses?
Baptist Health's primary sponsorship pathway for Registered Nurses is the employment-based Green Card, specifically the EB-2 and EB-3 categories, rather than the H-1B visa. This is standard across large U.S. hospital systems because the H-1B lottery creates uncertainty that long-term nursing hires don't lend themselves to. If you're targeting Baptist Health, prepare for a Green Card-based process from the start.
How do I apply for Registered Nurse jobs at Baptist Health?
You can browse Registered Nurse openings at Baptist Health through Migrate Mate, which filters for roles with confirmed sponsorship activity. Once you identify a position, apply through Baptist Health's careers portal and indicate your need for visa sponsorship in your application. Following up directly with the facility's nurse recruiter after submitting your application improves your visibility significantly.
Which visa types does Baptist Health commonly use to sponsor Registered Nurses?
Baptist Health predominantly sponsors Registered Nurses through the EB-3 employment-based Green Card category, which is the most common pathway for internationally trained nurses in U.S. healthcare. In cases where a nurse holds an advanced degree or meets elevated qualification thresholds, the EB-2 category may apply. Both pathways require a PERM labor certification filed with the DOL before the USCIS petition stage.
What qualifications does Baptist Health expect from sponsored Registered Nurse candidates?
Baptist Health expects candidates to hold an active RN license valid in the state where the role is located, a nursing degree that meets U.S. equivalency standards, and for internationally trained nurses, CGFNS certification or a credential evaluation from an approved body. Prior acute-care experience in a hospital setting is expected for most inpatient roles. NCLEX-RN passage is required if you trained outside the United States.
How long does the visa sponsorship process take for Registered Nurses at Baptist Health?
For EB-3 sponsorship, the full process from PERM filing through Green Card approval typically ranges from two to four years, though priority date backlogs for certain birth countries can extend that timeline significantly. The PERM stage alone with the DOL takes several months before USCIS even receives the I-140 petition. Clarify your priority date situation and country-of-birth backlog early so you and Baptist Health can align on realistic timelines.