Are you skilled in IV insertions and passionate about providing top-notch patient care? UPMC East’s IV Therapy Team is looking for a dedicated IV Nurse to join their team! If you have basic nursing experience and excel in IV insertion proficiency, including central lines, phlebotomy, and O2 insertions, Apply Now!
This position is full-time. The employee is required to work 3 12-hour shifts, primarily daylight and weekend hours. The employee potentially has an option to work nights, but not as frequently.
$15,000 Sign On Bonus Eligible for Experienced Nurses!
Your Role:
As a Professional Staff Nurse, you will be a Registered Nurse and an integral member of our care delivery team. You will set the standards for the level and quality of care, holding responsibility, authority, and accountability for the provision of nursing care. Your role involves managing and providing patient care activities for a group of patients and their families through the application of independent judgment, effective communication, and collaboration with all team members.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leadership & Partnership: Lead and partner with your team to ensure the highest quality of care.
- Collaboration & Supervision: Collaborate with physicians, other healthcare providers, patients, and their families to achieve desired patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care.
- Commitment to Excellence: Demonstrate a commitment to the community and the nursing profession by establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships.
Join us and make a difference in the lives of your patients while advancing your career in a supportive and dynamic environment.
Responsibilities:
Relationship Building:
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships internally and externally.
- Demonstrate accountability, enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues.
- Understand cultural differences and hold peers accountable for healthy relationships.
- Maintain a balance between work and personal life, modeling safe work hours, time management, and a healthy lifestyle.
- Communicate any safety hazards identified in the workplace to peers and management.
Patient and Family Education:
- Demonstrate knowledge of adult learning principles (and/or teaching children if applicable).
- Provide detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to guide them through the episode of care and transition to another level of care or home.
- Support the development of students, new staff, and colleagues, and may serve as a preceptor.
- Create an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.
Nursing Process and Care Planning:
- Apply the nursing process within the framework of Relationship-Based Care to create a healing environment.
- Formulate daily goals and a plan of care for patients that involve the patient as a partner and consider their individual needs holistically.
- Demonstrate critical thinking in identifying clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues for patient care within an episode of care.
- Practice solid communication skills, articulate and translate the patient's condition to other care providers, and make recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices.
- Ensure comprehensive patient documentation to promote communication between caregivers.
- Incorporate national professional organization goals and health system goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction.
- Create a caring and compassionate patient-focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.
Professional Development:
- Demonstrate accountability for professional development to improve the quality of professional practice and patient care.
- Actively participate in unit-based shared governance, goal setting, and support the change and transition process to improve quality of care and the practice environment.
- Serve as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team, responding willingly to care team member needs for assistance and partnership.
- Participate in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment.
- Adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility with the change process.
Quality Improvement:
- Actively participate in department or unit-specific quality improvement efforts.
- Identify opportunities for quality improvement and communicate them to colleagues and management.
- Take personal responsibility for improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service.
- Utilize research and evidence-based practice to support improvement in clinical care.
- Identify research issues or articles related to clinical specialty or areas of interest.
- Discuss opportunities for quality improvement at multidisciplinary rounds and influence patients' plans of care.
The individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and/or interact appropriately to the ages of the patients served by his/her assigned unit as specified below. They must also demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patients requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.
BSN Preferred
Zero to two years of experience
Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families. Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment. Good clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving abilities required as related to various aspects of patient care. Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and to lead others in application of the nursing process. Mobility and visual manual dexterity. Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting and positioning of patients.
***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 as or who choose to transition into one of these programs later must have at least 6 months of nursing experience to qualify and may be required to complete any necessary orientation during regular business hours. If you are interested in these programs, please alert your recruiter when you are 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 issue of 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 6 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 34 with renewal
- Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
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