Professional Staff Nurse - 6 West Acute Care - Full-Time Days with Rotation

UPMC • Williamsport, PA

22h • Onsite

About The Position

UPMC Williamsport is hiring a full-time Professional Staff Nurse for its 6 West Acute Care Department, a dynamic medical-surgical unit caring for patients with a wide range of medical conditions and surgical needs. Patient stays range from short-term observation of 24 to 48 hours to hospitalizations lasting several weeks. The unit’s staffing model pairs a Registered Nurse with a Patient Care Technician to support each six-patient assignment, emphasizing teamwork, collaboration, respect, and accountability.

The Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse and member of the care delivery team, responsible for the standard and quality of nursing care. The nurse manages and provides care to patients and their families using independent judgment, communication, collaboration, leadership, partnership, and supervision. The nurse establishes collaborative relationships with physicians, other healthcare providers, patients, and families to support desired outcomes throughout the continuum of care, while demonstrating commitment to the community and nursing profession.

This full-time position is 36 hours per week, working day and night shifts on a rotating schedule (7 a.m.–7 p.m. and 7 p.m.–7 a.m.), with every other weekend and every other holiday. Graduate nurses are welcome to apply. The final career-ladder job title will reflect education, experience, and manager discretion at the time of offer.

Requirements

• Zero to two years of experience.
• Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in the facility’s state or a qualifying multistate license under the Nurse Licensure Compact; graduate nurses may apply with a Temporary Practice Permit.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification meeting applicable requirements; CPR must include didactic and skills components within 30 days of hire.
• Graduate nurses must complete the licensure examination within six months of hire or within one year of graduation, whichever comes first; UPMC requires graduate nurses to take the examination within six months of their start date.
• Act 34 clearance.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, other providers, support staff, other departments, patients, and families.
• Ability to work effectively in a complex environment, manage multiple or changing priorities, and use 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 applying the nursing process.
• Mobility, visual-manual dexterity, and physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients.
• Ability to provide appropriate care for the ages and developmental needs of patients served by the assigned unit, including assessing and interpreting age-specific patient needs.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues and external partners, demonstrate accountability and commitment, and promote healthy relationships across cultural differences.
• Maintain a balance between work and personal life; model safe work hours, time management, and a healthy lifestyle; and communicate identified workplace safety hazards.
• Apply adult learning principles when teaching patients, families, students, and new staff; provide appropriate patient and family education about care and transitions; support colleague development and potentially serve as a preceptor; and seek feedback to improve practice.
• Use the nursing process and Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment, formulate patient-centered daily goals and plans of care, and consider patients’ holistic needs.
• Use critical thinking to identify clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual concerns, and communicate patients’ conditions and care recommendations to other providers.
• Maintain comprehensive patient documentation that supports communication among caregivers and incorporate professional, business-unit, and health-system goals to improve safety, quality, and satisfaction.
• Build healing relationships and create a caring, compassionate, patient-focused experience for patients, families, and colleagues.
• Take accountability for professional development and participate in shared governance, goal setting, care-team partnership, and initiatives that improve patient care and the professional practice environment.
• Adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility during change and transition processes.
• Participate in unit or department quality-improvement efforts, identify improvement opportunities, and take responsibility for improving patient satisfaction.
• Use research and evidence-based practice to support clinical improvement, including identifying relevant research, discussing improvement opportunities at multidisciplinary rounds, and influencing patient care plans.

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus of up to $20,000 for experienced nurses.
• Sign-on bonus of $7,500 for graduate nurses or nurses with less than one year of experience.
• Monthly loan repayment program offering up to $20,000 for 2026–2027 nursing graduates.
• Up to 5.5 weeks of paid time off annually.
• Seven paid holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $6,000 per year, including dependents.
• No-cost RN-to-BSN and RN-to-MSN options for UPMC employees.
• Career ladders that reward experience and education.
• Premium pay differential may be available through primarily night-shift or weekend-shift programs.

What This Job Offers

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