Job Summary

Are you a RN looking to join our team of Healthcare Heroes? Through professional growth, quality improvement, and interdisciplinary collaboration, we’ve built an innovative culture that allows nurses to grow their skillsets, develop their practice, and leverage their years of experience to build a rewarding, lasting career with impact. Our Geisinger nurses make a difference in the lives of the people they see every day- our friends, neighbors, and family members. To join Geisinger as a Nurse Fellowship Coordinator and start leading healthcare change, please apply now!

Job Duties

Benefits of working at Geisinger:

• Full benefits (health, dental and vision) starting on day one

• Three medical plan choices, including an expanded network for out-of-area employees and dependents

• Pre-tax savings plans with healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) and a health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution

• Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage

• 401(k) plan that includes automatic Geisinger contributions

• Generous paid time off (PTO) plan that allows you to accrue time quickly

• Up to $5,000 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year

• MyHealth Rewards wellness program to improve your health while earning a financial incentive

• Family-friendly support including adoption and fertility assistance, parental leave pay, military leave pay and a free Care.com membership with discounted backup care for your loved ones

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Referrals for childcare, eldercare, & pet care; Access free legal guidance, mental health visits, work-life support, digital self-help tools and more

• Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, identity theft protection, universal life and pet and legal insurance

• Shared governance structure that empowers our nurses

• Professional opportunities for growth and advancement

• Support and mentorship from a full range of dedicated nursing leaders

• Community involvement through our Employee Resource Groups            

• Geisinger values and prioritizes the safety and security of our staff by investing in a Strongline Alert Notification system worn by our staff, robust camera surveillance system, metal detectors at certain locations and security guards/K9 program on campus.

Join the Geisinger Family! Apply now! To learn more about Geisinger opportunities, please contact Rebecca Miszkiel at rmiszkiel@geisinger.edu

Job Description

Oversees and facilitates Specialty Nurse Fellowship Program following established standards and expectations.  Focus on continuing professional development and education for nurses new to specialty area.  Various responsibilities focus on developing educational programs and processes to promote professional development for nurses through the organization.

• Develops and revises curriculum for Specialty Nurse Fellowship Program. Focused on specialty scope and standards of practice.
• Implements and facilitates the Specialty Nurse Fellowship Program - ensures speakers are planned and present; space is planned and reserved; learners are informed of dates and locations; etc.
• Evaluate the outcomes of the Specialty Nurse Fellowship Program using data collection methods such as surveying.
• Routinely shares outcome data with key stakeholders and advisory committee.
• Revise the Specialty Nurse Fellowship Program based on feedback from stakeholders and literature.
• Serves as a strong role model in professional practice as evidenced by robust relationships with staff and members of other departments, effective communications, appropriate resource utilization and sound planning skills.
• Guides nurse fellows’ professional development through mentoring, coaching and education.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

Position Details

• Hours: Days

• Candidate will facilitate ED fellowship program to align with ENA scope and standards of practice

• Work collaboratively with nursing professional development practitioners, and nurse residency coordinator as nurses transition into the specialty area.  

• Candidate will facilitate a Critical Care fellowship program to align with the AACN Scope and Standards of Practice.

• Candidate will also look at other fellowship programs within the northeast to support our trauma and critical care specialties

• Travel required as needed

• Minimum of 3 years of Nursing experience

• Bachelor's Degree - Nursing required

Education

Bachelor's Degree-Nursing (Required), Master's Degree-Nursing (Preferred)

Experience

Minimum of 3 years-Nursing (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s)

Licensed Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - RN_State of Pennsylvania; Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing Body

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring 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 We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, 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.

We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.

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