Professional Staff Nurse, BSN

Senior Professional Staff Nurse

Hours: Weekdays from 7am - 5:30pm and Off Shift Call

Dept: Cath Lab

The Senior Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse who sets and upholds standards of high-quality care. They hold responsibility and accountability for delivering nursing care, using independent judgment and strong communication to manage care for patients and families. The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and supervision, building effective relationships with physicians, care teams, patients, and families to support positive outcomes across the care continuum. They also demonstrate commitment to both the community and the nursing profession. In this role you will develop a highly specialized skill set with cutting edge procedures for a broad patient spectrum.

UPMC offers a robust Nursing Career ladder - Title and Rate of Pay will be based on Education & Experience

• 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 partner and considers the individual needs of the patient in a holistic manner.
• Practices solid communication skills, and is able to articulate and translate the patient's condition to other care providers and to negotiate and make recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices.
• Patient documentation is comprehensive and promotes communication between caregivers.
• Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological and spiritual issues for the patient care within an episode of care.
• Incorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality and satisfaction of the patient experience in daily work.
• Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families and colleagues.
• Identifies opportunities for clinical quality as well as workplace improvement.
• Applies evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice.
• Analyzes clinical and behavioral situations, identifying learning opportunities to improve patient care practices.
• Demonstrates highly developed clinical assessment and analytical skills within the context of Relationship Based Care.
• Actively participates in shared governance at unit level and serves on hospital-wide councils.

• 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.
• Minimum 2 years experience.
• Previous Cath Lab or Cardiac ICU or PICU experience preferred
• BSN preferred.
• Annual completion of a professional contributions selected from department, hospital or system goals, and approved by Unit Director OR UPMC approved nursing certification required within 1 year of hire/transfer and must be maintained OR Certification not required if Masters in nursing or DNP is held. If a BSN is held, a Master's degree in a related field may be substituted in lieu of Certification.
• Must obtain a Solid/Strong/Good or higher on a Professional Staff Nurse Performance Evaluation to be promoted to this level.
• Must maintain a Solid/Strong/Good or higher on annual performance evaluation to maintain status.
• 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.
• Exemplary 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.
• Annual completion of a professional contributions selected from department, hospital or system goals, and approved by Unit Director OR UPMC approved nursing certification required within 1 year of hire/transfer and must be maintained OR Certification not required if Master's in nursing or DNP is held. If a BSN is held, a Master's degree in a related field may be substituted in lieu of Certification.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

• 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.
• UPMC approved nursing certification preferred.
• CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Registered Nurse (RN)
• Act 31 / Act 33 / Act 34 / Act 73 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