Professional Staff Nurse - Emergency Services (1+ YOE Required)

Job Description

UPMC Hamot's Emergency Department is seeking a full-time Professional Staff Nurse to join our team!

Apply now to become part of our dynamic Emergency Services team at UPMC Hamot and contribute to our mission of Life Changing Medicine !

About UPMC Hamot Emergency Department:
UPMC Hamot Emergency Department is the largest in the Erie region, providing 24/7 care for both minor and major injuries. As a Level 2 Trauma Center, Cardiac Center, and Comprehensive Stroke Center, we offer exceptional care. We are proud recipients of the  Emergency Nurse Association Lantern Award for excellence in leadership, practice, education, advocacy, and research.

This position is full-time, rotating evenings and nights. Shifts range from 9a-9p, 11a-11p, 3p-3a, and 7p-7a.

Title and salary will be determined based upon education and nursing experience.

The Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse who plays a crucial role in the care delivery team. They set standards for care quality, hold responsibility and accountability for nursing care, and manage patient care activities using independent judgment and collaboration. Their role includes leadership, partnership, and supervision, and they maintain collaborative relationships with physicians, other healthcare providers, patients, and families to achieve desired outcomes. Additionally, they demonstrate a commitment to the community and the nursing profession.

How does UPMC Support our Nurses?
UPMC is committed to investing in nurses like you –financially, personally, and professionally –starting on day one of your career. From tackling student loans to advancing your career later in life, UPMC is the partner you need to succeed and thrive in your nursing career. 

Here are a few examples of how we support our nurses: 

• This role may be eligible for a sign-on bonus!

• UPMC’s Monthly Loan Repayment program, exclusively for eligible 2025 and 2026 nursing graduates, offering $20,000* in loan repayment paid over three years

• Up to five and a half weeks of Paid Time Off annually, plus seven paid holidays each year 

• Dedicated career ladders allowing you to achieve your highest potential while rewarding you for your experience and advanced education 

• Tuition reimbursement of up to $6,000 per academic year at any accredited institution, available to employees and their dependents (plus discounts for UPMC employees including no cost RN-BSN/MSN options!) 

• Top clinicians, leading researchers, and the most modern equipment and technology in health care today 

   

  
  
   

  Responsibilities:

  • Actively participates in quality improvement efforts. Identifies opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management. Takes personal responsibility for improving patient satisfaction with care and service.
  • Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support clinical care improvement. Applies the nursing process within Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment. Formulates daily goals and a plan of care for patients, involving them as partners.
  • Demonstrates critical thinking in identifying clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues. Practices solid communication skills, articulating and translating patient conditions to other care providers. Ensures comprehensive patient documentation to promote communication between caregivers.
  • Incorporates goals from national professional organizations, business units, and health systems to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction. Creates a caring and compassionate patient-focused experience by building healing relationships. 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 quality and patient care. Actively participates in unit-based shared governance, goal setting, and supports change processes.
  • Serves as an engaged and full partner on the care team, responding to team member needs. 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 and appropriate teaching to guide patients and families through care transitions. Supports the development of students, new staff, and colleagues, potentially serving as a preceptor. Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by seeking feedback and improving practice.

 

If you have any questions about the position or would like to discuss the role in more detail, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Our recruiter is available to assist you and provide more information to help you determine if this opportunity is the right fit for you.

To connect, simply send an email to View email address on ziprecruiter.com , and we’ll be happy to schedule a time to speak with you or address any inquiries you may have.

 

The Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse and a member of the care delivery team. The Professional Staff Nurse is responsible to set the standards for the level and quality of care. The Professional Staff Nurse has responsibility, authority and accountability for the provision of nursing care. The Professional Staff Nurse manages and provides patient care activities for a group of patients and their families through the application of independent judgment, communication and collaboration with all team members. The role of the Professional Staff Nurse encompasses leadership, partnership, collaboration and supervision. The Professional Staff Nurse establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with physicians, other health care providers, patients and their families, to achieve desired patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care. The Professional Staff Nurse demonstrates a commitment to the community and to the nursing profession.

Responsibilities:

 

• Actively participates in department or unit-specific quality improvement efforts. Identifies opportunity for quality improvement to colleagues and management. Takes personal responsibility in improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service. Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support improvement in clinical care: identifies research issues or articles related to clinical specialty or areas of interest, discusses opportunities for quality improvement at multidisciplinary rounds, and influences patients' plans of care.
• 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. Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological and spiritual issues for the patient care within an episode of care. 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. Incorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality and satisfaction. Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families and colleagues.
• Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation and commitment to patients and colleagues. Demonstrates an understanding of cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships. Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life. Models safe work hours, time management and healthy lifestyle. Communicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace.
• Demonstrates accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and the quality of patient care. Actively participates in unit-based shared governance, goal setting and supports the change and transition process to improve quality of care and the practice environment. Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance and partnership. Participates in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment. Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility with the change process.
• Demonstrates knowledge of adult learning principles (and/or teaching children if applicable) and applies in teaching of patients, families, students and new staff. Provides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to effectively guide them through the episode of care as well as transition to another level of care and/or home. Supports the development of students, new staff and colleagues, may serve as a preceptor. Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.

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. Zero to two years of experience. BSN required. 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.

PALS within one year of hire or transfer.ACLS within one year of hire or transferNIH Stroke within 6 months of hire or transfer.

 

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIH)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI Clearance

*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