Family Practice / Primary Care Nurse Practitioner

Job Summary Geisinger Mount Pocono in northeastern PA, is seeking a new graduate or experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to expand our family medicine team.

Job Duties

At Geisinger, you have an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on your patients' lives with :

• Medically complex patients receive extended forty minute appointments; twenty-minute appointments for patients with average complexity and acute care visits.
• Schedule : Monday through Friday 8am to 4 : 30; including one late night per week and Saturday rotation.
• Call : Rotation includes rotation of weekend call
• Daily huddles with all care team members to review essential information about schedules, patients, resource needs and coordination of care
• Pharmacists to assist with patient education and medication management
• Availability of care managers, health managers, clinic health associates and coding educators to providers
• Increased access to care by means of eVisits, patient portals, Geisinger's ConvenientCare urgent care clinics and even text messaging

With Geisinger, you can also take advantage of :

Satisfaction of working for a nationally recognized, physician-led healthcare organization committed to leading healthcare change. To learn more about Geisinger's many accolades, click here .

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE :

Advanced Practitioner must be able to treat all ages (birth to geriatric)

Position Details

Education Master's Degree-Physician Assistant (Required), Master's Degree-Nurse Practitioner (Preferred)

Experience

Certification(s) and License(s) Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA); Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing Body

About Geisinger

Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes ten hospital campuses, a 550,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn and Twitter .

Our Vision & Values

Everything we do is about making better health easier 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.

Our Benefits

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and prescription coverage.