RN - System Float Pool, Days

Traveling Acute Care Float RN Opportunity

Earn up to $25,000 while expanding your skills across six Guthrie hospitals. Looking for a nursing role that offers variety, growth, and a generous sign-on bonus? Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, PA is hiring traveling acute care float RNs for our day shift team — and we're offering up to a $25,000 sign-on bonus for experienced nurses ready to make an impact across multiple departments.

What you'll do: As a day shift RN on our acute care float team, you'll rotate through medical-surgical units across Guthrie's hospital system, supporting patient care, relieving unit staff, and ensuring smooth clinical operations.

Schedule: Full-time, 36 hours/week

Shift: Days, 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Rotation: Every other weekend

Licensure: Active RN licenses in both PA & NY required

Why join Guthrie's float team?

• Up to a $25,000 sign-on bonus – a generous welcome for experienced RNs
• System-wide impact – support multiple units and be the go-to resource where care is needed most
• Premium pay – earn additional compensation for float assignments, critical care coverage, and off-shift hours
• Skill expansion – gain experience across six hospitals in NY & PA, from med/surg to telemetry
• Fresh assignments – rotate every 8–12 weeks to keep your work dynamic and engaging

Benefits that work for you:

• Medical & dental coverage – starts the 1st of the month after hire
• PTO accrual from day 1 – take time when you need it
• Relocation assistance – up to $12,000 to help you settle in
• Tuition reimbursement – up to $7,500 annually after 90 days
• 403(b) retirement plan – with company matching
• Free parking – easy access to your shift
• Work-life balance – predictable rotations and holiday schedules

Recognized for excellence:

• Modern healthcare's best places to work 2025
• Becker's best places to work – 2025
• Forbes 2025: best employers for women, best employers for healthcare professionals, and best-in-state employers (PA)
• Newsweek's America's best-in-state employers – 2025

Summary: The registered nurse (RN) provides professional, comprehensive nursing care for patients in an acute care environment. Accountable for the delivery of coordinated, safe, compassionate, therapeutic, evidence-based quality care to patients and families, based on individual physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, and appropriate care strategies throughout the lifespan. Practices in accordance with the nurse practice act in the state of employment, the American nurses association (ANA) code of ethics for nurses, and the ANA scope and standards of practice.

Education, license & certification:

• Registered nurse in the state of practice.
• BSN in nursing preferred.
• Any previously agreed upon effective date for obtaining a bachelor's degree in nursing between individuals and facilities will remain in effect, including those who transition to their position from the NLRN program.
• Any contract with specific time frames for obtaining a bachelor's degree in nursing will supersede the above point and will remain in effect.
• Specialty certification is preferred.
• BLS certification.
• ACLS is unit dependent.

Essential functions:

• Employs nursing professional practice: assesses, diagnoses, plans, implements, and evaluates patients' care. Develops updates and coordinates the patients' plan of care to achieve patient goals and to optimize outcomes and transitions across the continuum. Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition as appropriate. Performs and maintains the currency of essential competencies as required by a specific area of hire and population served.
• Advocates: effectively advocates for ethical and holistic care by partnering in care planning to promote the autonomy, dignity, rights, values, and beliefs of those we serve.
• Facilitates learning: fosters a learning environment for patients/families, nursing, and other members of the healthcare team, including student; facilities formal and informal learning for patients/families, nursing, other members of the healthcare team, and community.
• Aligns practice with safety and quality: accountable for safety, identifies and corrects problems, and integrates evidence and best practice into nursing care; uses data and evidence to improve patient outcomes. Aligns patient safety, self-safety, and environmental safety as equally important for best outcomes.
• Engages in professional development: engages in ongoing professional development; practices at the top of license within the legal parameters of the nurse practice act, the ANA code of ethics for nurses, and specialty standards. Promotes a culture of inquiry that explores, integrates, and disseminates research and evidence-based practice.
• Leader in practice setting & community: demonstrates leadership as change agents using the collaborative leadership skills of advocacy, influence, and innovation. In partnering with colleagues appropriately delegates, coordinates care, and collaborates with others as equal members of the inter-professional care team to integrate nursing knowledge. Models professional behaviors as a representative of the nursing profession.
• Participates in the planning and presentation of educational programs.
• It is understood that this description is not intended to be all-inclusive and that other duties may be assigned as necessary in the performance of the position.

Other duties:

• Proficiency in information technology, such as electronic health records, communication systems, computers, and equipment necessary to perform essential functions of the position.
• Skilled to work with a wide range of staff as part of an interdisciplinary team, including physicians, nurses, and ancillary staff.
• Ability to use independent, critical judgment in all aspects of patient care delivery.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills that convey a positive and supportive attitude.
• To effectively manage multiple responsibilities, urgent responses, and challenging situations.