RN - Registered Nurse - Convenient Care Plus

Registered Nurse Position at Geisinger's Convenient Care+

Join a dynamic, fast paced nursing environment at Geisinger's Convenient Care+. If you are an experienced RN who is looking for an appealing environment and a great place to practice patient care with a welcoming team - apply to learn more.

Job Duties

Live your most balanced life while helping our patients achieve their healthiest life with Geisinger's Convenient Care Plus.

• At least two (2) years of RN work experience is required.
• A typical schedule will include the following hours: Monday - Friday, 12 hours, 7:30 am to 8:00 pm and Saturday and Sunday 7:30am- 6:00pm; every third weekend rotation

Provides care in a fast-paced, high acuity environment that acts similarly to an advanced urgent care with physician oversight. Patient population will include ages >1 year of age to geriatrics. Care will include a large variety of chief complaints. Serves in an expanded role and prioritizes tasks and uses critical thinking and clinical judgment to provide urgent care.

• Work collaboratively with provider to triage patient care needs, assess patient needs, plan, and provide nursing care and coordinate follow-up care.
• Exhibits compassionate care during patient-nurse interactions.
• Coordinates patient care and interaction of staff.
• Obtains and documents patient medical history, chief complaint, vital signs, and provides basic medical data base for provider, and prepares patient for examinations.
• Performs initial and ongoing patient assessment.
• Evaluates effectiveness of nursing interventions and revises plan of care based upon patient response to interventions.
• Observes, reports, interprets, and records manifestations of the patient's condition.
• Provides direct patient care including, treatments, medications, and diagnostic studies according to policy and procedure.
• Assists provider in performance of procedures as directed by provider to facilitate accurate diagnosis.
• Inserts, monitors, regulates, and discontinues IVs as required by provider.
• Collects and prepares laboratory specimens and completes associated paperwork to expedite laboratory studies with maximum accuracy and efficiency.
• Communicates with lab, radiology, and other testing results to patients and via telephone and electronic medical record letter notification.
• Formulates, coordinates, and provides plan of care as established in department standards including, patient and family education, family needs and discharge planning throughout office visit
• Actively participates as a team member working toward team goals of the department and organization and is accountable for unit and system specific metrics.
• Provides instruction to ensure patient's understanding of medical condition and compliance with treatment instructions.

Skills

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, 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.