Professional Staff Nurse, 4 South Trauma

Join our dedicated team at UPMC Hamot as a Full-Time Professional Staff Nurse on the 4 South Trauma unit! 

Previous nursing experience is highly preferred. 

This position is full-time, rotating day and night shifts.

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’s how we support our nurses:

• $20,000 Sign-On Bonus available for full-time and flex full-time experienced nurses with 1+ year of experience.
• UPMC’s Monthly Loan Repayment program, exclusively for 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!)

Title and Salary will be determined based upon education and experience. 

Overview: 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.

• Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability, enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues.

• Demonstrates understanding of cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships.
• Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life and models safe work hours, time management, and healthy lifestyle.
• Communicates safety hazards identified in the workplace to peers and management.
• Demonstrates knowledge of adult learning principles and applies them in teaching patients, families, students, and new staff.
• Provides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to guide them through care and transitions.
• Supports 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 Relationship-Based Care to create a healing environment.
• Formulates daily goals and plans of care involving patients as partners and considering holistic needs.
• Demonstrates critical thinking in identifying clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues.
• Practices solid communication skills and articulates patient conditions to other care providers; negotiates and recommends changes in care and unit practices.
• Completes comprehensive documentation that promotes communication between caregivers.
• Incorporates national professional organization, business unit, and health system 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.
• Demonstrates accountability for professional development to improve practice and patient care quality.
• Actively participates in shared governance, goal setting, and supports change and transition processes.
• Serves as an engaged partner on the care team and responds willingly to team needs for assistance and collaboration.
• Participates in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment.
• Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility with the change process.
• Actively participates in department or unit-specific quality improvement efforts.
• Identifies opportunities for quality improvement and communicates them to colleagues and management.
• Takes personal responsibility for improving patient satisfaction with care and service quality.
• Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support clinical care improvements; identifies research issues or articles, discusses opportunities at multidisciplinary rounds, and influences patient plans of care.

• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and interact appropriately with patients of all ages served by the assigned unit.
• Understands principles of growth and development across the lifespan.
• Assesses patient data and interprets information to identify age-specific needs and provide appropriate care per department policies and procedures.
• Zero to two years of experience required.
• 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 and handle multiple or changing priorities and specialized equipment.
• Demonstrates good clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving abilities related to patient care.
• Possesses critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and lead others in applying the nursing process.
• Mobility and visual manual dexterity required.
• 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:

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within one year of hire or transfer.

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of 
• hire.
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIH) within 6 months of hire or transfer.
• Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)
• 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.
• Act 34

• UPMC approved national certification preferred. 

*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.