Professional Staff Nurse - Operating Room - East Side Surgery Center

Professional Staff Nurse Opportunity

UPMC is hiring a full-time professional staff nurse to join their East Side Surgery Center operating room! East Side Surgery Center is a four-operating room outpatient surgery center that offers services including urology, ophthalmology, ortho, and plastics. This is a great opportunity for work-life balance with no evenings, weekends, or holidays!

This position will work Monday through Friday, daylight hours. This position will support the operating room of the center, so previous operating room nursing experience is a must.

Responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues.
• Demonstrating knowledge of adult learning principles and applying it in teaching of patients, families, students, and new staff.
• Applying the nursing process within the framework of relationship-based care to create a healing environment.
• Demonstrating accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and the quality of patient care.
• Actively participating in department or unit-specific quality improvement efforts.
• Performing in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Zero to two years of experience. BSN preferred.

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.

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.

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)

UPMC is an equal opportunity employer/disability/veteran.