Purpose:
The
Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse and an integral member of the care delivery team. This role is pivotal in setting the standards for the level and quality of care provided. The Professional Staff Nurse holds responsibility, authority, and accountability for delivering nursing care.
Key responsibilities include managing and providing patient care activities for a group of patients and their families, utilizing independent judgment, effective communication, and collaboration with all team members. The role encompasses leadership, partnership, collaboration, and supervision.
The Professional Staff Nurse fosters and maintains collaborative relationships with physicians, other healthcare providers, patients, and their families to achieve desired patient outcomes across the continuum of care. Additionally, this role demonstrates a strong commitment to the community and the nursing profession.
This position is eligible for up to a generous $15,000 Sign-On Bonus with a 2-year commitment for experienced Registered Nurses with more than 1 year of experience!
Shift:
Rotating shifts: Days and Nights 12s
Responsibilities:
- Actively participates in department or unit-specific quality improvement efforts. Identifies opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management. Takes personal responsibility for improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service.
- Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support improvement in clinical care: identifies research issues or articles related to clinical specialty or areas of interest, discusses opportunities for quality improvement at multidisciplinary rounds, and influences patients' plans of care.
- Applies the nursing process within the framework of Relationship-Based Care to create a healing environment. Formulates daily goals and a plan of care for patients that involves the patient as a partner and considers the individual needs of the patient in a holistic manner.
- Demonstrates critical thinking in identifying clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues for patient care within an episode of care. Practices solid communication skills, articulates and translates the patient's condition to other care providers, and negotiates and makes recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices.
- Patient documentation is comprehensive and promotes communication between caregivers. Incorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction. Creates a caring and compassionate patient-focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.
- Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues. Demonstrates an understanding of cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships. Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life. Models safe work hours, time management, and a healthy lifestyle. Communicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace.
- Demonstrates accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and patient care. Actively participates in unit-based shared governance, goal setting, and supports the change and transition process to improve quality of care and the practice environment.
- Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance and partnership. Participates in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment. Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility with the change process.
- Demonstrates knowledge of adult learning principles (and/or teaching children if applicable) and applies them in teaching patients, families, students, and new staff. Provides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to effectively guide them through the episode of care and transition to another level of care and/or home. Supports the development of students, new staff, and colleagues, and may serve as a preceptor. Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.
The individual must demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and interact appropriately with patients of all ages served by their assigned unit. They must also demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the lifespan and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status. This includes interpreting the necessary information to identify each patient's age-specific needs and providing care as described in department policies and procedures.
- Experience: 0-2 years.
- Education: BSN preferred
- Skills:
- Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families.
- Capability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handling multiple and changing priorities, and specialized equipment.
- Good clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving abilities related to various aspects of patient care.
- Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and lead others in the application of the nursing process.
- Mobility and visual manual dexterity.
- Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients.
Flexible Options:
UPMC offers a variety of flexible options. In addition to traditional rotating/flexible shifts, special programs exist to work primarily night shifts or weekend shifts with a premium pay differential. Employees hired into or who choose to transition into one of these programs must have at least 6 months of nursing experience to qualify and may need to complete any necessary orientation during regular business hours. If you are interested in these programs, please inform your recruiter when contacted for an interview.
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 the issue of the 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 six 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)
- Act 33, 34, 73
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