Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner - Vascular Surgery

Location & Working Hours

Location:

Geisinger Medical Center (GMC)

Shift: Days (United States of America) Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40 Worker Type:
Regular Exemption Status:
Yes

Geisinger's Heart & Vascular Institute is seeking a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to support our Vascular Surgery department at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania.

This outpatient clinic position offers a Monday
- Friday, 8:00 - 5:00 pm schedule with no call, no weekends and no OR coverage. The vascular surgery PA or NP will join a close collaborative team of 7 vascular surgeons and 7 PA/NP's at Geisinger Medical Center. The successful Physician Assistant must be a graduate of a ARC-approved physician assistant program, eligible or certified by the National Commission for the Certification of Physician Assistants and eligible or certified by the State Board of Medicine.

The successful Nurse Practitioner candidate will work in collaboration with the physician and have a certificate of completion from an approved program for Nurse Practitioners or be eligible to hold national certification that allows the NP to work with the patient populations and location settings associated with this position. Must be eligible for licensure as a nurse practitioner in the state of PA.

• Education:
  
  Master's Degree-Nurse Practitioner (Required)
• Experience:
  
  Certification(s) and License(s):
  Basic Life Support Certification
  - Default Issuing Body Default Issuing Body, Certified Nurse Practitioner
  - American Academy of Nurse Practitioners American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Licensed Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) -  of  of Pennsylvania
• Skills:
  
  Care Management Knowledge, Clinical Policies And Standards, Health Information Documentation, Patient Assessment And Care, Patient Safety, Patients Rights

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
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We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.

LEARNING
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We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.

INNOVATION
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We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.

SAFETY
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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.
• We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and benefits for domestic partners.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

We are an Aff[i]... Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.

Geisinger is committed to making better health easier for the more than 1 million people it serves. Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes nine hospital campuses, a 550,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,600 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually.

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