Sr. Professional Staff Nurse - EP Lab

Job Description

Full-Time Sr. Professional Staff Nurse – EP Lab | UPMC Hamot

Monday through Friday | No Nights, Weekends, or Holidays | Late Shifts Required

Join the dedicated team in UPMC Hamot's Electrophysiology (EP) Lab, where you'll play a critical role in providing specialized cardiac care for patients undergoing electrophysiology procedures. This position offers the opportunity to work alongside a highly skilled, collaborative team in a fast-paced procedural environment while maintaining an excellent work-life balance.

What We're Looking For

• Minimum of two (2) years of nursing experience required
• Previous cardiac, electrophysiology (EP) experience preferred
• Strong clinical assessment skills and ability to work effectively in a procedural setting

• Commitment to delivering exceptional patient-centered care

   

In this role, the nurse is essential to providing direct patient care throughout the procedural experience, supporting efficient lab operations, and ensuring the appropriate staffing needed to maintain procedural volumes and patient access within the EP Lab.

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

Grow Your Nursing Career at UPMC

At UPMC, we're committed to supporting your professional growth throughout your nursing journey. We offer a robust clinical career ladder that begins with Professional Staff Nurse and extends to Expert Nurse and beyond. The final job title and compensation will be determined based on individual qualifications, experience, and candidate preference.

Any required certifications and role-specific expectations will be supported with an appropriate timeframe for completion. Our nursing career ladder and Total Rewards package will be reviewed at the time of offer to ensure you can make the best decision for your career goals.

Why UPMC?

UPMC invests in nurses from day one, offering resources that support your professional, financial, and personal success.

Benefits include:

• Sign-on bonus of up to $15,000 for experienced nurses (eligibility based on role and experience)
• Up to 5.5 weeks of paid time off annually
• Seven paid holidays each year
• Clinical career ladder opportunities with recognition and compensation for experience and advanced education
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $6,000 annually at accredited institutions
• Educational assistance for eligible dependents
• Nursing education discounts, including select no-cost RN-to-BSN and MSN pathways

About the Role

The Senior Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse and member of the care delivery team responsible for setting standards of excellence in patient care. This role has responsibility, authority, and accountability for the delivery of nursing care through leadership, collaboration, communication, and clinical expertise.

The Senior Professional Staff Nurse:

• Provides and coordinates care for patients and families across the continuum of care
• Serves as a clinical resource and role model for nursing staff
• Collaborates with physicians and interdisciplinary team members to achieve optimal patient outcomes
• Demonstrates leadership, professional accountability, and a commitment to nursing excellence
• Supports a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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. 

   

• Minimum 2 years’ experience. 
• BSN preferred. 
• 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 contribution 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. 
• 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. 
• CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.
• ACLS within one year of hire/transfer
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Registered Nurse (RN)
• Act 34

*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