Evaluation Professional Nurse - resolve Crisis Services

Evaluation Professional Nurse

UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital is hiring an Evaluation Professional Nurse to help support the Resolve Crisis Center. This position will work evenings/nights, including weekends and holidays.

The Evaluation Professional Nurse is a registered nurse who is accountable for setting standards and delivering high-quality patient care. This role involves managing and coordinating care through independent judgment, collaboration, and effective communication, while providing leadership and supervision. The nurse builds strong interdisciplinary relationships to support optimal patient outcomes and demonstrates commitment to the nursing profession and community.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates accountability for professional growth, participates in shared governance, supports change, collaborates effectively with the care team, and adapts flexibly to evolving practice needs.
• Applies the nursing process within Relationship-Based Care to deliver holistic, patient-centered care; sets goals with patients, uses critical thinking, communicates effectively, and documents comprehensively to promote safety, quality, and satisfaction.
• Educates patients, families, students, and staff using adult learning principles; supports transitions of care, precepts as needed, seeks feedback, and promotes continuous development.
• Engages in quality improvement initiatives, identifies improvement opportunities, uses evidence-based practice, and supports efforts to enhance patient care and satisfaction.
• Builds productive, culturally aware working relationships; demonstrates accountability, promotes work-life balance, models safe practices, and communicates workplace safety concerns.

Qualifications:

• RN required. BSN preferred.
• Minimum six months experience.
• Ability 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.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships; 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: UPMC approved national certification preferred. Current Pennsylvania licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse. CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Comprehensive Crisis Management (CCMC), Registered Nurse (RN), Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal, Act 33 with renewal, Act 34 with renewal, Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal, OAPSA.

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran