Registered Nurse- RN- Pediatric Critical Response

Job Duties

• 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.
• Collaborates 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.
• 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 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.

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.
• Collaborates 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.
• 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 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.

Position Details

• Position Qualifications/Schedule Requirements: .9 FTE, 36 hours/weekly, 12-hour shifts Day/Night Rotation (7a-7p, 7p-7a) Shared Scheduling Process (4-week blocks)
• Minimum (3) years clinical bedside nursing experience is required. Must be able to float between all pediatric units within Janet Weis Children's Hospital.
• Additional $5 in specialty float premium applied to all hours worked.

About Geisinger

• Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes ten 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 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually.