Casual Professional Staff Nurse (RN) - Inpatient Rehab - UPMC Carlisle

UPMC•Carlisle, PA

About The Position

The Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse and a member of the care delivery team, responsible for setting standards for the level and quality of care and accountable for providing nursing care. The nurse manages and provides care for a group of patients and their families using independent judgment, communication, and collaboration with team members. The role includes leadership, partnership, collaboration, and supervision, as well as maintaining collaborative relationships with physicians, other health care providers, patients, and families to achieve desired outcomes across the continuum of care. The nurse demonstrates commitment to the community and nursing profession. In inpatient rehabilitation, nurses support patients as they regain strength, mobility, independence, and confidence. Patients often spend more time on the unit, allowing nurses to build relationships and support individual goals from admission through discharge. The setting offers opportunities to strengthen nursing skills, develop clinical expertise, and work with an interdisciplinary team that includes physical, occupational, and speech therapy, physicians, case management, and other hospital services. This is a casual position at UPMC Carlisle, with a schedule spanning day, evening, and night shifts. The position requires 36 hours in six weeks, including 12 weekend hours, and one holiday per year.

Requirements

Minimum one year of experience.
Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in the state where the facility is located, or an applicable multistate license under the Nursing Licensure Compact.
CPR certification meeting AHA standards, including didactic and skills demonstration components, within 30 days of hire.
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 productively and effectively in a complex environment, handle multiple or changing priorities, and work with specialized equipment.
Good clinical judgment, critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving abilities related to patient care.
Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and lead others in applying the nursing process.
Mobility and visual manual dexterity.
Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients.
Knowledge and skills to provide care and interact appropriately with the ages of patients served, including knowledge of life-span growth and development and the ability to assess and interpret patient data in relation to age-specific needs.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
UPMC-approved national certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage and provide patient care activities for a group of patients and their families.
Use the nursing process within Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment and formulate daily goals and plans of care that involve patients and consider their holistic needs.
Identify clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues through critical thinking.
Communicate and coordinate with care providers, articulate patients’ conditions, and make recommendations about patient care and unit practices.
Maintain comprehensive patient documentation that supports communication between caregivers.
Contribute to patient safety, care quality, and satisfaction goals, and participate in unit-specific quality improvement efforts.
Use research and evidence-based practice to support improvements in clinical care and influence patient plans of care.
Teach patients and families throughout the episode of care and during transitions to another level of care or home.
Support students, new staff, and colleagues, and may serve as a preceptor.
Participate in shared governance, goal setting, professional development, and work that improves patient care and the practice environment.
Maintain productive working relationships, demonstrate accountability and commitment, and communicate workplace safety hazards.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members to develop plans of care focused on patients’ independence.
Perform in accordance with system-wide competencies and behaviors and perform other duties as assigned.
Demonstrate knowledge of growth and development across the life span and provide care appropriate to the ages and needs of patients served by the assigned unit.