Up to $25K Sign‑On + System‑Wide Experience — Your Float RN Career Starts Here.
Looking for a nursing role that offers variety, growth, and a generous sign-on bonus? Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, PA is hiring Traveling Acute Care Float RNs for our Night Shift team — and we’re offering up to a $25,000 Sign-On Bonus for experienced nurses ready to make an impact across multiple departments.
What You'll Do
- As a Night Shift RN on our Acute Care Float Team, you’ll rotate through Medical-Surgical Units across Guthrie’s hospital system, supporting patient care, relieving unit staff, and ensuring smooth clinical operations.
- Schedule: Full-time, 36 hours/week
- Shift: Nights, 7:00 PM – 7:00 AM
- Rotation: Every other weekend
- Licensure: Active RN licenses in both PA & NY required
- Why Join Guthrie's Float Pool?
- Up to a $25,000 Sign-On Bonus – A generous welcome for experienced RNs
- System-Wide Impact – Support multiple units and be the go-to resource where care is needed most
- Premium Pay – Earn additional compensation for float assignments, critical care coverage, and off-shift hours
- Skill Expansion – Gain experience across six hospitals in NY & PA, from Med/Surg to Telemetry
- Fresh Assignments – Rotate every 8–12 weeks to keep your work dynamic and engaging
Benefits
- That Work for You:
- Medical & Dental Coverage – Starts the 1st of the month after hire
- PTO Accrual from Day 1 – Take time when you need it
- Relocation Assistance – Up to $12,000 to help you settle in
- Tuition Reimbursement – Up to $7,500 annually after 90 days
- 403(b) Retirement Plan – With company matching
- Free Parking – Easy access to your shift
- Work-Life Balance – Predictable rotations and holiday schedules
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- Best Places to Work 2025 - Modern Healthcare
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- America's Best Employers for Women 2025 - Forbes
Summary
The Registered Nurse (RN) provides professional, comprehensive nursing care for patients in an acute care environment. Accountable for the delivery of coordinated, safe, compassionate, therapeutic, evidence‐based quality care to patients and families, based on individual physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, and appropriate care strategies throughout the lifespan. Practices in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act in the state of employment, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses, and the ANA scope and standards of practice. Essential functions and specific skills for the job are found in the unit specific onboarding checklist and in standards that are applicable to the specialty.
Education, License & Certification
- Registered Nurse in the State of Practice.
- BSN in Nursing preferred.
- Any previously agreed upon effective date for obtaining a Bachelor's degree in nursing between individuals and facilities will remain in effect, including those who transition to their position from the NLRN Program.
- Any contract with specific time frames for obtaining a bachelor’s degree in nursing will supersede the above point and will remain in effect.
- Specialty Certification is preferred
- BLS certification.
- ACLS is unit dependent.
Essential Functions
1. Employs Nursing Professional Practice
Assesses, diagnoses, plans, implements, and evaluates patients' care. Develops updates and coordinates the patients' plan of care to achieve patient goals and to optimize outcomes and transitions across the continuum. Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition as appropriate. Performs and maintains the currency of essential competencies as required by a specific area of hire and population served. 2.
Advocates
- Effectively advocates for ethical and holistic care by partnering in care planning to promote the autonomy, dignity, rights, values, and beliefs of those we serve. 3.
- Facilitates
- Learning: Fosters a learning environment for patients/families, nursing, and other members of the healthcare team, including student; Facilities formal and informal learning for patients/families, nursing, other members of the healthcare team, and community. 4.
- Aligns
- Practice with
- Safety and
- Quality: Accountable for safety, identifies and corrects problems, and integrates evidence and best practice into nursing care; uses data and evidence to improve patient outcomes. Aligns patient safety, self‐safety, and environmental safety as equally important for best outcomes. 5.
- Engages in
- Professional
- Development: Engages in ongoing professional development; practices at the top of license within the legal parameters of the Nurse Practice Act, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, and specialty standards. Promotes a culture of inquiry that explores, integrates, and disseminates research and evidence‐based practice. 6.
- Leader in
- Practice
- Setting &
- Community: demonstrates leadership as change agents using the collaborative leadership skills of advocacy, influence and innovation. In partnering with colleagues appropriately delegates, coordinates care, and collaborates with others as equal members of the inter‐professional care team to integrate nursing knowledge. Models professional behaviors as a representative of the nursing profession. 7. Participates in the planning and presentation of educational programs. 8. It is understood that this description is not intended to be all‐inclusive and that other duties may be assigned as necessary in the performance of the position.
Other Duties
- 1.
- Proficiency in Information Technology, such as electronic health records, communication systems, computers, and equipment necessary to perform essential functions of the position.
- 2.
- Skilled to work with a wide range of staff as part of an interdisciplinary team, including physicians, nurses, and ancillary staff.
- 3.
- Ability to use independent, critical judgment in all aspects of patient care delivery.
- 4.
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills that convey a positive and supportive attitude.
- 5. to effectively manage multiple responsibilities, urgent responses, and challenging situations.
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Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.
The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
