Location:Geisinger Office Building Mt Pleasant
Shift:Days (United States of America)
Scheduled Weekly Hours:40
Worker Type:Regular
Exemption Status:Yes
Job Summary:The Geisinger Skilled Nursing Program is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant at Oak Ridge Nursing Home in Taylor, PA.
Job Duties:This position is for a Geisinger provider working within a contracted skilled nursing facility. It requires an experienced advanced practitioner with prior clinical experience in skilled nursing, family medicine, internal medicine, or intensive care. The advanced practitioner (AP) provides direct (hands-on) care in skilled nursing facilities with a goal to improve quality and prevent unnecessary re-admissions to the acute care setting.
Geisinger has much to offer:
- Attractive schedule - Monday - Friday 8 am - 4:30 pm
- Rotating call schedule
- No weekend hours
- $10k recruitment incentive
- Continuing Medical Education - 10 days and $3,000 annually
- Six paid holidays
- Paid Time Off - 23 days
Responsibilities:
- Review reports
- Communicate with SNF staff for patient needs
- Treat patients for acute needs, admissions, discharges, etc.
- Manage extremely complex patients, see every day or at least once a week
- Approximately 12 patients a day
- Length of time per patient and number of patients is per need
Position Details:Education:Master's Degree-Physician Assistant (Required)
Experience:Certification(s) and License(s):Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing BodyDefault Issuing Body, Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
Skills:Care Management Knowledge, Clinical Policies And Standards, Health Information Documentation, Patient Assessment And Care, Patient Safety, Patients Rights
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.
