Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Family Medicine newly increased compensation

Location :

Geisinger Primary Care Sunbury

Shift :

Days (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours :

40

Worker Type : Regular

Exemption Status : Yes

Job Summary :

Geisinger is seeking an experienced or new graduate Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our Primary Care team in Sunbury, PA. This site qualifies for a $10k recruitment incentive.

Job Duties :

Living and working here, you'll join one of our tight-knit communities, and experience a quality of life you can't get elsewhere. You'll have opportunities to better your life and make a difference. Geisinger Sunbury is 20 minutes from Geisinger Medical Center, our main campus!

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
• Physician / APP panel sharing model
• Daily huddles with care team members to review coordination of care
• Pharmacists to assist with patient education and medication management
• Care managers, health managers, clinic health associates and coding educators
• Centralized prescription refill team
• Nurse call center to assist with on-call workload (nursing home calls directed to Skilled Nursing Facility team)
• Epic EMR - universal throughout Geisinger with Ambient dictation
• Increased access to care by means of eVisits, patient portals, Geisinger's ConvenientCare urgent care clinics

Why Advanced Practitioners join Geisinger :

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE :

Advanced Practitioner must be able to see all age ranges from Pediatric (birth) to Geriatric.

The successful Physician Assistant candidate will work under the responsibility and supervision of the physician and require completion of an ARC-PA (or predecessor organization) approved physician assistant program, current NCCPA certification or eligibility and Pennsylvania State licensure.

The successful Nurse Practitioner candidate will work in collaboration with the physician and have a certificate of completion from an approved program for Nurse Practitioners or be eligible to hold national certification that allows the NP to work with the patient populations and location settings associated with this position. Must be eligible for licensure as a nurse practitioner in the state of PA.

Position Details : Education :

Master's Degree-Nurse Practitioner (Required)

Experience :

Certification(s) and License(s) :

Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing BodyDefault Issuing Body, Certified Nurse Practitioner - American Academy of Nurse PractitionersAmerican Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Licensed Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - RN_State of PennsylvaniaRN_State of Pennsylvania

Skills :

Care Management Knowledge, Clinical Policies And Standards, Health Information Documentation, Patient Assessment And Care, Patient Safety, Patients Rights

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES : Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

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.