UPMC welcomes your application to join our team as a Professional Staff Nurse, OP! This full-time position features day shifts with no weekend or holiday required. Apply today to join a great team and receive a robust Totals Reward package!!
Responsibilities:
- Actively engages in department-specific quality improvement initiatives, consistently identifying and communicating opportunities for enhancement to colleagues and management.
- Takes responsibility for improving patient satisfaction by focusing on the quality of care and service provided, utilizing evidence-based practices to support clinical improvements.
- Establishes and maintains positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, staff, and patients, fostering a collaborative work environment.
- Demonstrates strong clinical judgment and critical thinking skills, effectively managing multiple priorities and specialized equipment within a complex environment.
- Applies adult learning principles to teach patients, families, students, and new staff, providing comprehensive education and fostering open dialogue and continuous development.
- Develops individualized care plans in partnership with patients, triaging and coordinating care with physicians, and addressing clinical, social, and psychological issues with effective communication.
- Shows commitment to professional development by participating in shared governance and supporting quality improvement initiatives, adapting to change and responding flexibly to team needs.
- Maintains productive relationships internally and externally, balancing work and personal life while ensuring safety, time management, and cultural sensitivity in all interactions.
- The individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and/or interact appropriately to the ages of the patients served by his/her assigned unit as specified below.
- They must also demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.
Preferred:
- Minimum six months experience
- BSN
- EPIC experience
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
UPMC approved national certification preferred. Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse either in the state where the facility is located or in a state covered by a licensure compact agreement with the state where the facility is located. CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire. Graduate nurses must complete licensure examination within SIX MONTHS of hire or within one year of graduation, whichever comes first.� Though temporary permits are valid for one year from the date of graduation, not one year from issue of permit (or until the results of the examination are known at which time it becomes null and void), UPMC requires that GNs take the licensure examination within 6 months of their start date or they will be terminated or demoted from the GN position, at the discretion of the BU.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)
- Act 33 with renewal
- Act 34 with renewal
- Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal
- Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran