Professional Staff Nurse, BSN - Infusion Center

Job Description

\n Full-Time Professional Staff Nurse, BSN - Infusion Center | UPMC Hamot \n

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Join the UPMC Hamot Infusion Center as a Professional Staff Nurse, BSN, and become part of a highly collaborative, patient-focused team dedicated to delivering exceptional outpatient infusion care. This position is ideal for an experienced nurse who enjoys building relationships with patients, utilizing advanced clinical skills, and working in a supportive, close-knit environment.

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Preferred Experience: Candidates with a minimum of four years of nursing experience are highly preferred. Previous experience in infusion therapy and/or IV insertion is preferred. Experience in medical-surgical nursing, dialysis, oncology, or other specialties requiring strong vascular access skills, patient assessment, and ongoing clinical monitoring.

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Schedule: This full-time position is scheduled for four 10-hour shifts per week, Monday through Friday, from 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. There are no weekends or UPMC-recognized holidays, supporting a consistent schedule and work-life balance.

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The Infusion Center is comprised of a small, supportive team that values collaboration, communication, and teamwork. Staff work closely together each day to provide outstanding care while fostering a positive and engaging work environment where team members genuinely support one another's success.

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The Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse and an essential member of the care delivery team. This role is responsible for setting standards for the quality and level of patient care while maintaining accountability for clinical outcomes. The Professional Staff Nurse utilizes independent judgment, strong communication skills, and interdisciplinary collaboration to provide comprehensive nursing care for patients and their families. This position promotes patient-centered care through leadership, partnership, collaboration, and professional nursing practice.

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As an integral member of the Infusion Center team, the Professional Staff Nurse provides safe, high-quality care to approximately 9 to 11 patients per day receiving a variety of infusion therapies. The nurse plays a critical role in patient assessment, ongoing monitoring, vascular access management, medication administration, patient education, and the coordination of care with providers, pharmacists, and support staff. This position is essential to supporting the daily operations, patient experience, and continued growth of the Infusion Center.

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

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Responsibilities:

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• Demonstrates accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and the quality of patient care. 
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• 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. 
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• Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance and partnership. 
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• Participates in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment. 
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• Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility with the change process.
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• Applies the nursing process within the framework of Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment. 
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• 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. 
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• Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological and spiritual issues for the patient care within an episode of care. 
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• 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. 
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• Patient documentation is comprehensive and promotes communication between caregivers. 
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• Incorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality and satisfaction. 
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• Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families and colleagues.
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• Demonstrates knowledge of adult learning principles (and/or teaching children if applicable) and applies in teaching of patients, families, students and new staff. 
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• 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. 
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• Supports the development of students, new staff and colleagues, may serve as a preceptor. 
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• Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.
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• Actively participates in department or unit-specific quality improvement efforts. 
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• Identifies opportunity for quality improvement to colleagues and management. 
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• Takes personal responsibility in improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service. 
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• 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.
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• Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation and commitment to patients and colleagues. 
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• Demonstrates an understanding of cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships. 
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• Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life. 
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• Models safe work hours, time management and healthy lifestyle. 
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• Communicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace.
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• *Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.
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• *Performs other duties as assigned.
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  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. 

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  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. 

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• Zero to two years of experience. 
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• BSN required. 
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• Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families. 
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• Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment. 
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• Good clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem solving abilities required as related to various aspects of patient care. 
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• Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and to lead others in application of the nursing process. 
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• Mobility and visual manual dexterity. 
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• Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting and positioning of patients.
  Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
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• UPMC approved national certification preferred. 
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• 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. 
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• CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire. 
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• Graduate nurses must complete licensure examination within SIX MONTHS of hire or within one year of graduation, whichever comes first.
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• 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.
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• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
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• Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)
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• Act 34
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*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 \n