Professional Staff Nurse, OR

UPMC • Erie, PA

11d • $37

About The Position

UPMC Hamot is hiring a full-time Professional Staff Nurse for its General Surgery Operating Room. The role supports a high-acuity, fast-paced surgical environment with rotating shifts, weekend work, and on-call coverage. Available shift lengths are 8, 10, or 12 hours. The Operating Room has 17 surgical suites and supports specialties including robotics, kidney transplants, trauma, and other complex surgical services, providing care for elective and urgent cases across infant through geriatric populations.

The Professional Staff Nurse OR is a Registered Nurse and member of the care delivery team, accountable for setting standards and providing nursing care. The nurse manages and provides care for patients and their families using independent judgment, communication, and collaboration. The role includes leadership, partnership, collaboration, and supervision, and requires maintaining working relationships with physicians, other health care providers, patients, and families to achieve desired outcomes across the continuum of care.

The position uses Relationship Based Care and the nursing process to plan and deliver holistic, patient-focused care. Nurses contribute to professional development, shared governance, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, patient and family education, and the development of students and colleagues. The final job title and rate of pay depend on qualifications and candidate choice. The minimum rate for a non-BSN Professional Staff Nurse is $36.50; title and salary are determined based on education and nursing experience. Required certifications and contributions tied to the selected job title will be afforded a timeframe to obtain.

Requirements

• Prior nursing experience or surgical technologist experience is highly preferred.
• 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 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 to apply and lead others in application of the nursing process.
• Mobility, visual manual dexterity, and physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients.
• Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in the facility’s state or a state covered by an applicable licensure compact agreement; a Registered Nurse license or Temporary Practice Permit is listed.
• CPR certification meeting AHA standards, including a didactic and skills demonstration component, is required within 30 days of hire; Basic Life Support or CPR is listed.
• Graduate nurses must complete the licensure examination within six months of hire or within one year of graduation, whichever comes first; UPMC requires the examination within six months of the start date.
• Employees who change residency to the facility’s state while working on an out-of-state NLC license must apply for in-state licensure within 60 days.
• Must meet the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age-specific needs of patients served by the assigned unit.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
• UPMC-approved national certification preferred.
• Prior nursing experience or surgical technologist experience highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate accountability for professional development that improves professional practice and patient care quality.
• Participate in unit-based shared governance and goal setting, and support change and transition processes to improve care quality and the practice environment.
• Act as a full partner on the care team and respond to team members’ needs for assistance and collaboration.
• Participate in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment.
• Adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility.
• Apply the nursing process within Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment.
• Formulate daily patient goals and plans of care with patient partnership and consideration of individual holistic needs.
• Use critical thinking to identify clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues in patient care.
• Communicate and convey patient conditions to other care providers, and make recommendations regarding patient care and unit practices.
• Maintain comprehensive patient documentation that supports communication among caregivers.
• Incorporate professional organization, business unit, and health system goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction.
• Build healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues to provide a caring, compassionate, patient-focused experience.
• Apply adult learning principles, and teach patients, families, students, and new staff as appropriate.
• Provide patients and families with appropriate teaching to guide them through care and transitions to another level of care or home.
• Support the development of students, new staff, and colleagues, and potentially serve as a preceptor.
• Seek feedback and improve practice to support open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development.
• Participate in unit- or department-specific quality improvement and identify improvement opportunities to colleagues and management.
• Take personal responsibility for improving patient satisfaction with care and service quality.
• Use research and evidence-based practice to improve clinical care, raise relevant research or articles, discuss improvement opportunities at multidisciplinary rounds, and influence patient care plans.
• Build productive internal and external working relationships through accountability, enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues.
• Demonstrate understanding of cultural differences and hold peers accountable for healthy relationships.
• Maintain work-life balance and model safe work hours, time management, and a healthy lifestyle.
• Communicate identified workplace safety hazards to peers and management.
• Perform the scrub role if hired as an RN on or after July 1, 2023.
• Perform in accordance with system-wide competencies and behaviors, and other duties as assigned.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills to interact appropriately with the ages of patients served by the assigned unit, including applying lifespan growth and development principles and interpreting patient data to identify age-specific care needs.

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus of up to $15,000 for experienced nurses; amount and eligibility depend on the nursing role and candidate experience.
• Up to five and a half weeks of paid time off annually.
• Seven paid holidays each year.
• Career ladders that support advancement and reward experience and advanced education.
• Tuition reimbursement of 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.
• Premium pay differential may be available for employees in programs working primarily night shifts or weekend shifts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed