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UPMC Hamot is hiring a Professional Staff Nurse to join our NICU team in the Women's Hospital!

This position is full-time, rotating day/night shifts. Previous nursing experience required.

UPMC Hamot's Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit provides comprehensive care for critically ill newborns. Our skilled nurses work collaboratively with physicians and APPs to develop and execute plans of care and provide education and emotional support to families in a highly specialized environment.

Title and Salary will be determined based upon education and experience.

**Purpose:** The Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse who sets the standards for care quality and is accountable for nursing care. They manage patient care activities through independent judgment and collaboration with the healthcare team, embodying leadership, partnership, and supervision to achieve desired patient outcomes.

Responsibilities:

+ Actively participates in quality improvement efforts and identifies opportunities for improvement. Takes personal responsibility for improving patient satisfaction with care and service.

+ Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support clinical care improvements. Applies the nursing process within Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment.

+ Formulates daily goals and care plans involving patients as partners. Demonstrates critical thinking in identifying clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues.

+ Practices solid communication skills and translates patient conditions to other care providers. Ensures comprehensive patient documentation to promote communication between caregivers.

+ Incorporates goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction. Builds healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.

+ Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally.

+ Demonstrates accountability, enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues.

+ Understands cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships. Maintains a balance between work and personal life, modeling safe work hours and healthy lifestyle. Communicates safety hazards identified in the workplace to peers and management.

+ Demonstrates accountability for professional development to improve practice and patient care. Actively participates in unit-based shared governance and supports change processes.

+ Serves as an engaged partner on the care team and responds to team member needs. Participates in work to improve patient care and the professional practice environment.

+ Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility. Demonstrates knowledge of adult learning principles and applies them in teaching patients, families, students, and new staff.

+ Provides detailed teaching to guide patients and families through care transitions.

+ 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.

+ At least one year of nursing experience required. BSN Preferred.

+ Demonstrates knowledge and skills for age-appropriate care and interaction. Understands growth and development principles over the lifespan.

+ Assesses patient data to identify age-specific needs and provide appropriate care.

+ Establishes positive, caring relationships with various healthcare professionals and patients/families.

+ Works productively in a complex environment, handling multiple priorities and specialized equipment.

+ Exhibits good clinical judgment, critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving abilities. Leads others in applying the nursing process.

+ Requires mobility, visual manual dexterity, and physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients.

+ UPMC offers flexible shift options, including night and weekend shifts with premium pay, requiring at least 6 months of nursing experience and orientation during regular business hours.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

+ Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.

+ Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) within one year of hire or transfer.

+ Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)

+ Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal

+ Act 33 with renewal

+ Act 34 with renewal

+ Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal

+ UPMC approved national certification preferred.

+ 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.

*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

If you would like to discuss this opportunity with a Recruiter for Hamot Inpatient Nursing and Nursing Support, reach out to Jill Schlosser at [email protected]