UPMC welcomes your application to join our team as a Professional Staff Nurse, OP! This full-time position features day shift hours ranging from 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM, with no weekends or holidays required. Apply today to join a great team and grow your career with UPMC!

Responsibilities:

• Actively engages in department-specific quality improvement initiatives, identifying areas for enhancement and collaborating with colleagues and management to implement changes.

• Takes personal responsibility for enhancing patient satisfaction through high-quality care and service, utilizing evidence-based practices and research to guide improvements.

• Establishes and maintains positive, empathetic relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders, including executives, physicians, support staff, and patients/families.

• Demonstrates effective handling of complex environments, balancing multiple priorities, and operating specialized equipment with proficiency.

• Applies critical thinking, analytical skills, and problem-solving abilities in patient care, leading others in the application of the nursing process.

• Provides comprehensive and patient-centered education to patients, families, and new staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.

• Formulates holistic care plans in collaboration with patients, coordinates care with physicians, and addresses clinical, social, and psychological needs through solid communication.

• Shows commitment to professional development and practice-based governance, actively participating in efforts to enhance patient care and adapt to changes in the work environment.

• 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.

• 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)

*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