RN - Registered Nurse - Convenient Care Plus

Job Duties

• Provides care in a fast-paced, high acuity environment that acts similarly to an advanced urgent care with Physician oversight.
• Serves in an expanded role and prioritizes tasks and uses critical thinking and clinical judgment to provide urgent care.
• Clinically assesses patient needs, plans, and provides nursing care and coordinates follow-up care.
• Coordinates patient care and interaction of staff, obtains and documents patient medical history, vital signs, and provides basic medical data base for provider.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• At least two (2) years of RN work experience is required.

Skills

• Compassionate care during patient-nurse interactions.
• Collaborative teamwork.
• Effective communication.
• Interpreting patient conditions.
• Documentation and record keeping.
• IV insertion and monitoring.
• Laboratory specimen collection and preparation.
• Discharge planning.

Benefits

• Full benefits (health, 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 Care.com 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.