Posted: Oct 3, 2025
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Home Health Registered Nurse - Lancaster - Penn Medicine

Penn Medicine - Lancaster, PA
Full-time
Application Deadline: N/A
Registered Nurse (RN)

Come join our Lancaster Home Health team ! We accept ASN and BSN RN candidates and have both full & part time availability. 

Why Choose Penn Medicine at Home?

  • Paid travel/parking reimbursement every check 
  • Clinical ladder for BSN candidates
  • Generous Tuition reimbursement (Go for your BSN or MSN)
  • Day shift hours
  • Accredited by the Joint Commission
  • Licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  • Use a variety of skills in the home
  • PMAH supports clinicians in their pursuit of education via formal university enrollments to advance their degree or for conferences and in-service education
  • 24-hour Nursing on-call support

Summary:

  • The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague is an RN who practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model.
  • The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague possesses the knowledge, skills, and attitude to effectively meet standards for competent professional nursing practice as specified in the Clinical Nurse 2 position description addendum.
  • The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague exhibits UPHS organizational behavioral competencies which reflect its mission and are embedded in the professional practice competency domains.
  • The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague 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 Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague 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 (Definitions listed below).
  • The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague 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.
  • The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague seeks feedback in assuming leadership roles and provides feedback for improved clinical practice. The nurse demonstrates how nursing practice impacts the organizational vision, mission, goals and the care delivery system. The nurse complies with all regulations and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies.

Responsibilities:

  • Professional Practice Competency Domains Definitions 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.
  • Evidence-Based Practice and Research: The nurse evaluates and integrates the best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Safety: The nurse minimizes the risk of harm to patients, families, providers, and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
  • Technology/Informatics: 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 safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.

Credentials (We have 2 career paths):

  • Minimum Requirements for Clinical Nurse-NCL track:

    • Diploma or Associate Degree in Nursing (ASN) from an accredited school of nursing
    • 15+ months of relevant professional nursing experience
    • Pennsylvania (or New Jersey) RN licensure
    • BLS/CPR as a healthcare provider, as per the American Heart Association
    • Have a car, valid driver’s license, and car insurance

    OR

    Minimum Requirements for Clinical Nurse 2 track:

    • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited school of nursing
    • 15+ months of relevant professional nursing experience
    • Pennsylvania (or New Jersey) RN licensure
    • BLS/CPR as a healthcare provider, as per the American Heart Association
    • Have a car, valid driver’s license, and car insurance