RN, Healthcare Nursing, RN Nurse

Job Summary

Geisinger is proud to offer a full-time Inpatient Registered Nurse with Pediatric Critical Response a $21,500 hiring incentive for eligible candidates! $41.50 minimum hiring rate with increased rates for experienced individuals, additional specialty float premium, and up to $7 shift differentials for evening, night, and weekend shifts. $7,500 in relocation assistance for eligible candidates!

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)

• 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  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

• Shared governance structure that empowers our nurses

• Professional opportunities for growth and advancement

• Support and mentorship from a full range of dedicated nursing leaders

• Community involvement through our Employee Resource Groups            

• Employee referral incentive program

• Geisinger values and prioritizes the safety and security of our staff by investing in a robust camera surveillance system, metal detectors at certain locations and security guards/K9 program on campus.

Job Responsibilities:

• 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 patient and family education.

• Demonstrates skills and knowledge necessary to assure assessment, treatment, and care is appropriate to the age of patients served.

• Initiates collaboration with physicians, ancillary personnel, and other interdisciplinary team members and acts to proactively resolve and facilitate action to meet patient needs.

• Delegates on the basis of skill, expertise and time availability of the team member, acuity and needs of the patient.

• Problem solves, troubleshoots, and takes corrective measures in care and handling of equipment.

• Actively participates as a team member working toward team goals of the organization.

• Actively participates in education and professional development activities.

• 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 Geisinger Medical Center.

• This includes but not limited to Sepsis Alerts, Pulmonary Embolism Response Team calls, and Stroke Alerts.

• 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…