Location:
Geisinger Medical Center (GMC)
Shift:
Days (United States of America)
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Worker Type:
Regular
Exemption Status:
Yes
Job Summary:
Responsible for ensuring optimal quality, clinical and financial outcomes; networking, assuring availability and coordinating needed patient and family services, identifying and advocating for individual needs of patients, identifying and resolving patterns of variance having a negative quality, clinical and financial impact, and creating action plans and systems to optimize clinical and system outcomes.
Job Duties:
- Assumes the role of clinical expert.
- Coordinates patient care placing rehabilitation and social service consults per protocol.
- Facilitates weekly multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Participates in direct patient care in a preceptor role.
- Acts as a preceptor or adjunct faculty for student nurses as needed.
- Participates in discharge planning in conjunction with other healthcare members.
- Documents care management and progress report in each trauma service patient's chart on a weekly basis and as needed.
- Provides one-on-one consultation with multidisciplinary team members identifying and implementing strategies to enhance patient care and outcomes.
- Assists in collection and interpretation of data pertinent to the Trauma PI Program and Trauma Registry.
- Maintains trauma roster and updates on concurrent basis.
- Summarizes concurrent daily chart rounding information into monthly quality improvement report and forwards initial review to leadership for secondary review and action.
- Coordinates data collection for formal quality improvement focus audits.
- Develops and revises quality improvement data collection instruments and documentation guidelines.
- Provides immediate one-on-one education concerning patient care and system.
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:
Hours: 40 hours per week; typical hours are 7:00 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Experience: Minimum of 3 years previous RN experience required
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Geisinger cares about not only its patients and members, but also about you and your family. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package to ensure that you and your loved ones can maintain good health, achieve financial stability, and excel both personally and professionally. We believe in creating a diverse and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves. To learn more: https://jobs.geisinger.org/diversity
- 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
Education:
Graduate from Specialty Training Program- (Required), Bachelor's Degree-Nursing (Preferred)
Experience:
Minimum of 3 years-Nursing (Required)
Certification(s) and License(s):
Licensed Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - RN_State of Pennsylvania
Skills:
Clinical Skills, Communication, Computer Literacy, Health Information Documentation, Interpersonal Communication, Patient Assessment And Care, Teamwork
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: 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: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
- LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
- INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
- SAFETY: 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. 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.
