Professional Staff Nurse (RN), Casual - Clinical Resource Team

Professional Staff Nurse Opportunity

UPMC Western Maryland is seeking a professional staff nurse to join their clinical resource team!

This is a casual, or as-needed, opportunity. During the interview process, you will learn about the specific shifts/schedules we offer.

Applicants will be placed in the appropriate job title and salary based on their individual experience and education. The minimum casual rate is $38.60/hour.

The clinical resource team does not serve a single designated unit, but rather the entire UPMC Western Maryland facility. Staff from the clinical resource team maintain multiple competencies to ensure they can provide care in areas ranging from the behavioral health unit to medical/surgical to our step-down area. These staff are organized and flexible, as they must be ready for a different assignment daily.

As a professional staff nurse, you play a key role in shaping the patient care experience and setting the standard for clinical excellence. As a registered nurse on the care team, you take ownership of delivering high-quality care to patients and their families, using critical thinking, collaboration, and clear communication to guide each step. This role goes beyond bedside care—embracing leadership, teamwork, and mentorship while building strong partnerships with physicians, colleagues, and the community. It's an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes while contributing to the growth of the nursing profession.

Responsibilities:

• Models safe work hours, time management and a healthy lifestyle.
• Communicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 1 year experience.
• BSN preferred.
• 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:

• Basic life support (BLS) OR cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.
• Registered nurse (RN).

*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.