Medicine Ambulatory Float RN

Penn Medicine; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn Medicine in Philadelphia seeks an experienced registered nurse to float among outpatient practices within the Department of Medicine. You will provide high-quality patient care across Hematology/Oncology, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary, Gastroenterology, and Cardiology, applying the nursing process and collaborating with diverse teams.

This is a full-time, on-site role with 8-hour shifts Monday through Friday.

Qualifications

• Diploma or ASN from an accredited school of nursing (Required).
• More than 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience (Required).
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required).
• Compact, Multi-State License (Required).

Responsibilities

• Float between outpatient practices within the Department of Medicine.
• Provide quality patient care across multiple specialties with nursing process.
• Collaborate with inter- and intra-professional teams to ensure safe, effective care.
• Engage in continuous quality improvement and professional development.

Skills

Evidence Based Practice

Teamwork

Professionalism

Informatics/Technology

Safety

Education

Diploma or ASN in Nursing

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?

Entity: Clinical Practices of University of Pennsylvania

Department: Medicine Ambulatory Float Pool

Location: Philadelphia and Surrounding Suburbs

Hours: Full-Time (Mon-Fri), 8-hour shifts.

Summary

You will be float between a variety of our outpatient practices within the Department of Medicine: including (but not limited to) the Hematology/Oncology, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary, Gastroenterology, and Cardiology. In this role, you will provide quality patient care to our patients in areas where there is an operational need. This opportunity allows you to practice in and learn about various specialties, while connecting and collaborating with individuals at different levels of the organization. In this position you will be able to independently provide patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients across the lifespan from young adults to geriatrics.

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

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
• Compact, Multi-State License (Required)

Requirements

• Diploma or ASN from an accredited school of nursing (Required)
• More than 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience (Required)

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.

Live Your Life's Work

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.