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Join Our PACU Team as a Professional Staff Nurse!

Are you a compassionate, skilled RN looking to make a meaningful impact during one of the most critical moments in a patient's surgical journey? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, team-based environment where collaboration, clinical excellence, and professional growth are truly valued? If so, we'd love to welcome you to our Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU).

As a Professional Staff Nurse, you'll play a key role in supporting patients as they transition from surgery to recovery-applying your expertise, autonomy, and critical thinking to deliver safe, high-quality postoperative care. You'll join a team that values partnership, communication, and continuous development.

This position features rotating shifts with limited weekends, nights, and call, offering flexibility while keeping variety in your schedule.

What You'll Do

Support Patients in Their Most Vulnerable Moments

+ Provide high-quality, compassionate recovery care in the PACU.

+ Collaborate closely with anesthesia providers, surgeons, and the interdisciplinary care team to achieve seamless transitions.

Build Strong & Supportive Relationships

+ Develop productive working relationships with colleagues, patients, and families.

+ Model accountability, enthusiasm, and a commitment to excellent patient care.

+ Promote a healthy work-life balance and safe work habits.

Educate & Empower

+ Teach patients and families about postoperative expectations and next steps.

+ Support students, new hires, and peers through mentoring and precepting.

+ Foster a culture of open communication, feedback, and continuous learning.

Deliver Exceptional, Patient-Centered Care

+ Apply the nursing process and Relationship-Based Care principles to individualize care plans.

+ Demonstrate strong clinical judgment and communication skills to advocate for patient needs.

+ Ensure comprehensive, clear documentation to support seamless care.

Lead, Learn & Grow Professionally

+ Engage in shared governance and unit-based decision-making.

+ Participate in change initiatives to strengthen the PACU practice environment.

+ Support and collaborate with team members as a fully engaged partner.

Elevate Quality & Safety

+ Contribute to ongoing quality improvement efforts.

+ Identify opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction and care outcomes.

+ Use evidence-based practice to guide clinical decision-making.

Be Part of a Team That Makes Recovery Safe, Smooth & Compassionate

If you're ready to combine your clinical skills with a supportive team environment-and you're excited to care for patients during a pivotal part of their surgical experience-this PACU role is the perfect fit.

+ 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 patients 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.

+ Zero to two years of experience.

+ BSN preferred.

+ 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 at a later time 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.

_Applicants will be placed in the appropriate job title and salary from the career ladder, based on their individual experience and education._

+ Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

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

*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