Ambulatory Registered Nurse (RN), Eichenlaub and May, Full-Time (Day Shift)

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System; Lancaster (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits program

Tuition assistance program

Employee health programs

Job summary

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System is looking for a dedicated Ambulatory RN in Lancaster, PA. This full-time position includes responsibilities such as evaluating patient care practices, demonstrating leadership, and ensuring safety across healthcare teams.

To qualify, candidates must be licensed Registered Nurses in PA with a BSN and over 15 months of nursing experience. We offer a supportive environment focused on patient-centered care and professional development.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse licensure in PA is required.
• At least 15 months of relevant nursing experience.
• Commitment to lifelong learning and adherence to nursing ethics.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient care by employing evidence-based practices.
• Collaborate with healthcare team members for coordinated care.
• Promote safety and quality improvement initiatives within nursing.
• Utilize informatics to enhance patient care.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Patient care

Teamwork

Leadership

Evidence Based Practice

Professional development

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Tools

Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS)

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

Job description

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines. Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Job Description

Location: Lancaster, PA
Schedule: Full-Time, Day Shift, 40 hours/week. 8:00am-4:30pm.

Summary

• The Ambulatory RN practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. The Ambulatory RN possesses the knowledge, skills and the attitude to effectively meet standards for competent professional nursing practice as specified in the Ambulatory RN position description addendum. The Ambulatory RN exhibits UPHS organizational behavioral competencies which reflect its mission and are embedded in the professional practice competency domains. The Ambulatory RN independently provides patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients. Assigned patients may range in age from infancy to the elderly. The Ambulatory RN demonstrates within the competency domains of Continuous Quality Improvement, Evidence Based Practice and Research, Leadership, Person and Family Centered Care, Professionalism, Safety, Technology/Informatics, and Teamwork. The Ambulatory RN works closely with the interprofessional health care team to facilitate the coordination of care across the continuum. The nurse focuses on expanding the knowledge and skills necessary to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age appropriate considerations of assigned patients.

Responsibilities

• Evidence Based Practice and Research: The nurse evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.
• Safety: The nurse minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Professionalism: The nurse demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization and advancing community outreach.
• Person and Family Centered Care: The nurse recognizes the patient (or the patient’s designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Leadership: The nurse effectively collaborates and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine.
• Informatics/Technology: The nurse utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
• Teamwork: The nurse effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in an effort to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.
• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): The nurse utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.

Credentials

• Registered Nurse - PA (Required)
• Current licensure as a RN, issued by the PA State Board of Nursing required
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
• BLS/ACLS/PALS per specialty

Education or Equivalent Experience

• Bachelor of Arts or Science
• Education Specialization: BSN from an accredited school of nursing Equivalent Experience
• And More than 15 months relevant professional nursing experience

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Equal Opportunity Employment

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.