RN - Registered Nurse - Advanced Acute Care Hematology

Location: Geisinger Medical Center (GMC)

Shift: Nights (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 36

Worker Type

Regular

Exemption Status

No

Job Summary

Geisinger is proud to offer a full time Inpatient RN up to $24,000 hiring incentive for eligible candidates! $41.50 minimum hiring rate with increased rates for experienced individuals and up to $7 shift differentials for evening, night, and weekend shifts. Relocation assistance for eligible candidates!

Join the Geisinger Family! Apply now! To learn more about Geisinger opportunities, please contact Katy Baralt, Nurse Recruiter, at ksbaralt@geisinger.edu.

Job Duties

• Assesses plans, organizes, performs, and evaluates nursing activities to meet the needs of the patient. Promotes adaptive responses of patient and family to achieve the highest level of patient care, promote safety, and maximize patient satisfaction. Exhibits compassionate care during patient-nurse interactions. Coordinates patient care and interaction of staff. Meets the qualifications to provide care for patients in their assigned nursing unit. Responsible for ensuring the very best patient and family experience by optimizing all interactions.
• Completes assessments as established by scope of practice and unit standards.
• Addresses physical, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual needs of patient and family throughout the continuum of care.
• Formulates, coordinates, and provides plan of care as established in unit standards including, patient and family education, family needs and discharge planning throughout hospitalization with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Provides direct patient care including, treatments, medications, and diagnostic studies according to policy and procedure.
• Evaluates effectiveness of nursing interventions and revises plan of care based upon patient response to interventions.
• Initiates collaboration with physicians, ancillary personnel, and other interdisciplinary team members and acts to proactively resolve and facilitate patient needs.
• Problem solves, troubleshoots and takes corrective measures in the care and handling of equipment.
• Participates in unit-based decision-making regarding the utilization of evidence- based practice.
• Actively participates as a team member working toward team goals of the unit and organization and is accountable for unit and system specific metrics.
• Actively participates in patient quality and safety education programs and other activities designed to improve departmental and organizational quality and safety.

• Work is typically performed in a clinical environment.
• Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures.
• The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive.
• They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
• Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

Position Details

Schedule Details

Full time, 36 hours per week, night shift, every other weekend and every other holiday.

Offer self-scheduling to allow for flexible schedule.

Unit: Details:

BP8 is a 19 bed, all private, inpatient unit that cares for patients who are admitted to the Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplant Service. Nurses administer chemotherapy to many patients on this unit. Chemotherapy administration is done only when the RN has a minimum of one-year experience in nursing and successfully completes the chemotherapy administration orientation process, which incorporates guidelines provided by the Oncology Nursing Society.

Nursing staff work closely with the interdisciplinary team which consists of the physicians, physician assistants, care management, nutrition, chaplains and pharmacy. There is a pharmacy located on BP8. The pharmacy area prepares chemotherapy for administration for BP8 patients as well as inpatient and outpatient pediatric patients. Pharmacists are available as an excellent resource for nursing staff.

Employee engagement scores are top notch. Staff turnover is minimal and patient satisfaction scores are high. BP8 is very proud of the cohesiveness of the interdisciplinary team, which makes this unit a great place to work.

Geisinger Medical Center is proud to receive ANCC Magnet Recognition®, the highest and most prestigious distinction a health care organization can receive for nursing practice and quality patient care.

Benefits

Education: Graduate from Specialty Training Program-Nursing (Required)

Experience

Certification(s) and License(s)

Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing Body, Licensed Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - RN_State of Pennsylvania

Skills: Clinical Skills, Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Organizing, Preceptor Skills, Teamwork

Our purpose & values

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.