Sr. Professional Staff Nurse, BSN - Stress Lab | Heart Institute at UPMC Hamot

Full-Time Flex Senior Professional Staff Nurse, BSN Stress Lab | UPMC Hamot Heart Institute

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Join the UPMC Hamot Heart Institute as a Senior Professional Staff Nurse in our Stress Lab, where you will play a key role in delivering high-quality cardiovascular care to both inpatient and outpatient populations. We are seeking an experienced nurse who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about patient safety, clinical excellence, and exceptional patient experiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Five years of prior nursing experience strongly preferred
• Previous cardiac or cardiovascular care experience preferred

The Stress Lab Nurse plays a vital role in supporting the safe and efficient delivery of cardiac stress testing services. Responsibilities include patient assessment, monitoring patients throughout testing procedures, medication administration, patient education, and responding to clinical concerns during diagnostic testing. This position works closely with physicians, advanced practice providers, and the interdisciplinary care team to ensure quality outcomes and an exceptional patient experience.

In addition to direct patient care responsibilities, the Stress Lab Nurse supports departmental operations by promoting scheduling efficiency, maintaining patient throughput, ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards, and contributing to continuity of care. This role is essential to meeting the growing cardiovascular needs of our community while maintaining the highest standards of patient-centered care.

Why UPMC?

UPMC is committed to investing in nurses like you, financially, personally, and professionally, starting on day one. From tuition assistance and career advancement opportunities to comprehensive benefits and professional development resources, UPMC provides the support you need to build a rewarding and successful nursing career.

The Senior Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse and a valued member of the care delivery team. This role is responsible for setting standards for the level and quality of care provided. The Senior Professional Staff Nurse has responsibility, authority, and accountability for nursing practice and patient outcomes. Through the application of independent judgment, effective communication, and collaboration with interdisciplinary team members, this nurse manages and provides care for patients and their families across the continuum of care.

As a clinical leader, the Senior Professional Staff Nurse exemplifies partnership, collaboration, mentorship, and professional excellence. This individual establishes and maintains strong relationships with physicians, healthcare professionals, patients, and families to achieve desired outcomes while demonstrating a commitment to the nursing profession and the community.

Title and salary will be determined based on education, experience, and career ladder qualifications. Responsibilities:

• Serves as a role model of professional nursing practice by serving as a recognized unit leader in one or more of the following areas: clinical expertise, teacher, specialized resource nurse, and/or evidence-based practice.
• Consistently gives appropriate feedback to all members of the health care team and participates in the nursing peer review process.
• Promotes change that enhances the quality of patient care and the unit environment.
• Serves on teams and leads successful teams as a part of daily practice.
• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrates a passion for developing others, enthusiastically and expertly precepts students, graduate nurses and new hires.
• Analyzes clinical and behavioral situations, identifying learning opportunities to improve patient care practices.
• Regularly seeks feedback on performance and applies continuous professional improvement.
• Supports continuous learning in the clinical area by sharing research, materials from professional organizations, presenting on the unit, supporting journal clubs, etc.
• Identifies opportunities for clinical quality as well as workplace improvement.
• Applies evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice.
• Serves on or leads teams that launch innovations in patient care or support a healthy workforce.
• Builds and mends relationships among colleagues within the framework of a healthy workplace.
• Role models keen cultural awareness including preventing and addressing horizontal violence and impairment.
• Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life through prioritization and delegation of responsibilities.
• Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Minimum 2 years experience.
• BSN preferred.
• Annual completion of 1 professional contribution selected from department, hospital or system goals, and approved by Unit Director as set forth through UPMC's My Nursing Career Ladder OR certification. 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 1 year of hire or transfer into department
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Cardiac-Vascular Nursing
• Registered Nurse (RN)
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal

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