Registered Nurse (RN) - Med Surg
UPMC - Hamot
Erie, PA

Professional Staff Nurse, OP - Heart Vascular

UPMC is excited to invite you to apply for the role of Professional Staff Nurse, OP! This part-time position offers a Monday through Friday schedule from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, with the possibility of hybrid work hours during the week. Enjoy a great work-life balance with no weekend or holiday shifts required. Be part of a positive workplace culture with strong intra-departmental collaboration and support. Apply today and join a great team at UPMC! Responsibilities: * Actively engages in department and practice-specific quality improvement initiatives, identifying and addressing areas for enhancement with colleagues and management. * Takes personal responsibility for elevating patient satisfaction through the quality of care and service, incorporating research and evidence-based practices to drive clinical improvements. * Establishes and maintains positive, caring relationships with executives, physicians, support staff, and patients, navigating a complex environment with adeptness. * Utilizes critical thinking and problem-solving skills to handle multiple priorities, specialized equipment, and diverse patient needs, ensuring high standards of care. * Applies knowledge of adult learning principles to educate patients, families, students, and new staff, guiding them effectively through their care journey and fostering continuous development. * Formulates holistic care plans in partnership with patients, coordinating with physicians to address clinical, social, and psychological needs, while ensuring comprehensive and clear patient documentation. * Demonstrates accountability for professional growth, supporting shared governance, goal setting, and change processes to enhance care quality and practice environment. * Builds productive relationships and maintains a healthy work-life balance, modeling safe work practices, managing time effectively, and communicating any safety concerns with peers and management. Qualifications: * 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 patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures. Preferred: * Minimum six months experience * 2 years clinical experience * BSN 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 * 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