Clinician-ED (Harrisburg)

UPMC • Harrisburg, PA

12h • Onsite

About The Position

UPMC is hiring a Clinician for the Emergency Department at UPMC Harrisburg. This is a night position, working 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.

The Clinician is a nurse leader with direct responsibility for supporting a culture of excellence and patient care, serving as a highly developed role model of professional nursing practice. Under the general direction of the Unit Director or another department manager, the Clinician completes and delivers employee evaluations, participates in staff selection and hiring, and manages the daily performance of direct reports. The role provides service-based education and clinical expertise to staff, including orientation and training, consultation on practice issues, and coordination of clinical activities. The Clinician may also have shift accountability for delivering nursing care when needed.

The position advances quality, safety, and patient satisfaction through clinical leadership, mentoring, education, performance improvement, and the integration of research and best practices into daily work. It applies Relationship Based Care and the nursing process to address patients’ and families’ clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs. The Clinician supports staff through change and transition, participates in shared leadership, and assumes formal leadership responsibilities in areas such as quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and onboarding.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of nursing experience.
• Bachelor of Science or BSN required. If the bachelor's degree is not in nursing, a master's or higher degree in nursing is required.
• Demonstrated competence as a Professional Staff Nurse.
• Ability to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to care for or appropriately interact with patients across the ages served by the assigned unit.
• Knowledge of lifespan growth and development, and ability to assess patient-status data, interpret age-specific needs, and provide care according to department policies and procedures.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients and families.
• Ability to work effectively and productively in a complex environment, handle multiple or changing priorities, and work with specialized equipment.
• Exemplary clinical judgment, critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving abilities related to patient care.
• Critical thinking skills to apply and lead others in applying the nursing process.
• Mobility and visual-manual dexterity.
• Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients.
• Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in the practicing state; licensure must be in the facility's state or, where applicable, a multistate license from a participating Nursing Licensure Compact state. Employees with an out-of-state NLC license who move their residency to the facility's state must apply for that state's licensure within 60 days.
• CPR required according to AHA standards, including didactic and skills demonstration components, within 30 days of hire.
• Required credentials and clearances listed: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS); Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR); Registered Nurse (RN); Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal; Act 33 with renewal; Act 34 with renewal; and Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree preferred.
• National certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain productive internal and external working relationships through team building, mentoring, and positive communication; coach colleagues on cultural diversity and address workplace horizontal violence and impairment.
• Demonstrate accountability for safe work hours, time management, and healthy lifestyles.
• Use performance improvement tools and techniques to improve care quality, work environment, outcomes, and integration of research and best practices; share learning with other units or across the business unit or system.
• Mentor, educate, and share knowledge with patients, families, peers, and healthcare team members; serve as a preceptor for student nurses, nurse interns, graduate nurses, and experienced nurses, and help develop new preceptors.
• Promote continuous learning through formal education and development of others, and share expertise with healthcare team members within and beyond the clinical unit or department.
• Incorporate professional organization, business unit, and health system goals into daily work to improve patient safety, quality, and patient satisfaction.
• Build caring, compassionate, healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues; disseminate new knowledge and innovations through presentations, posters, and publications.
• Apply nursing knowledge and skills within Relationship Based Care, using the nursing process to address patients’ and families’ clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs.
• Use critical thinking to analyze clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues; communicate and document patient conditions comprehensively, recommend changes in patient care and unit practices, and support communication between caregivers.
• Lead clinical nursing practice and change processes by identifying patient- and staff-focused improvement opportunities and supporting staff psychological and learning needs during change and transition.
• Participate in shared leadership at the unit, facility, or system level and assume formal leadership responsibilities in areas such as quality improvement, evidence-based practice, or graduate nurse and new-hire onboarding.
• Complete or assist with staff performance evaluations for direct reports, as applicable.
• Under the direction of the Unit Director or department manager, conduct staff selection and hiring and manage daily performance for direct reports.
• Provide service-based education and clinical expertise, including staff orientation, training, practice consultation, and coordination of clinical activities.
• Provide nursing care when needed, including when assigned shift accountability.

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus of up to $15,000; amount and eligibility depend on nursing role and candidate experience.
• Up to five and a half weeks of paid time off annually.
• Seven paid holidays each year.
• Career ladders, including a nursing career ladder that recognizes experience and advanced education.
• Tuition reimbursement up to $6,000 per academic year at an accredited institution, available to employees and their dependents.
• UPMC employee discounts, including no-cost RN-BSN/MSN options.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager