Job Summary
Geisinger is proud to offer an Inpatient RN a hiring incentive up to $23,500 for eligible candidates! $41.41 minimum hiring rate with increased rates for experienced individuals and up to $7 shift differentials for evening, night, and weekend shifts!
Job Duties
Benefits of working at Geisinger:
- Full benefits (medical, dental and vision) starting on day one
- Three medical plan choices, including an expanded network for out-of-area employees and dependents
- Pre-tax savings plans with healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) and a health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
- Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan that includes automatic Geisinger contributions
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plan that allows you to accrue time quickly
- Up to $5,000 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year
- MyHealth Rewards wellness program to improve your health while earning a financial incentive
- Family-friendly support including adoption and fertility assistance, parental leave pay, military leave pay and a free Care.com membership with discounted backup care for your loved ones
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Referrals for childcare, eldercare, & pet care; Access free legal guidance, mental health visits, work-life support, digital self-help tools and more
- Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, identity theft protection, universal life and pet and legal insurance
Join the Geisinger Family! Apply now! To learn more about Geisinger opportunities, please contact Tiffany Nino at [email protected].
Job Description:
- Completes assessments as established by unit standards and addresses physical, social, cultural, spiritual and psychological needs of patient and family.
- Formulates and documents plan of care as established in unit standards.
- Includes health teaching, family needs and discharge planning.
- Administers medications and treatments according to procedure.
- Evaluates effectiveness of nursing interventions and revises plan of care based upon patient response to interventions or lack of progress.
- Coordinates and provides patient care, discharge planning and patientand family education.
- Problem solves, troubleshoots, and takes corrective measures in care and handling of equipment.
- Meets and follows the divisional and organizational established Service Standards and adheres to the Code of Conduct.
- Assumes responsibility for identifying processes or systems that could potentially lead to errors and adverse events.
- Participates in problem solving when appropriate.
- Actively participates in patient safety improvement and management program.
- Responds to all Adult Rapid Responses and Adult Codes throughout medical center.
- Assists in initial resuscitation and implementation of bundle guidelines in accordance with best practice.
- Assists in the determination and transportation of the patient to the appropriate level of care.
- Completes documentation of events during Rapid Response calls in the medical record.
- Maintains and updates Rapid Response Database.
- Performs proactive rounding in patient care areas other than intensive care in order to identify changes in patients 'conditions and effect early intervention in collaboration with outreach team or nocturnist.
- Participates and lead Sepsis Education in non-Intensive Care Unit areas.
Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
Assesses plans, organizes, performs, and evaluates nursing activities to meet the needs of the patient. Promotes adaptive responses of patient and family to achieve the highest level of patient care, promote safety, and maximize patient satisfaction. Exhibits compassionate care during patient-nurse interactions. Coordinates patient care and interaction of staff to maximize patient outcome. Meets the qualifications to provide care for patients in the specified age ranged of their assigned nursing unit.
Position Details
Hours include: 7p-7:30a; weekend and holiday requirements.
Minimum Qualifications: 2 YOE
Geisinger Wyoming Valley is proud to receive ANCC Magnet Recognition®, the highest and most prestigious distinction a health care organization can receive for nursing practice and quality patient care.
Education
Graduate from Specialty Training Program-Nursing (Required)
About Geisinger
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.
