Join Our Dynamic Team at UPMC Washington’s Float Pool!

Position: Professional Staff Nurse

About the Role:

Adaptability, Teamwork, and Learning: We’re looking for candidates who demonstrate adaptability, teamwork, and a commitment to ongoing learning and professional development. Graduate Nurses Welcome: Graduate Nurses (GNs) are encouraged to apply. This role offers a structured career ladder with opportunities for further education and basic arrhythmia training. Hands-On Experience: Our Float Pool provides hands-on, fulfilling opportunities for Professional Staff Nurses to build confidence in their nursing abilities. Fast-Paced Environment: Ideal for nurses who thrive in fast-paced and unpredictable environments, this role offers a rotating schedule to ensure round-the-clock coverage. Supportive Team: Our team fosters a supportive, collaborative environment focused on achieving optimal patient outcomes. Nurses in our Float Pool have the chance to acquire a wide range of skills and knowledge, supported by experienced colleagues who promote excellent teamwork.

Responsibilities:

Leadership and Collaboration: The Professional Staff Nurse, a Registered Nurse and integral member of the care delivery team, sets the bar for care standards and quality. They manage patient care for a group and their families, employing independent judgment, communication, and collaboration with colleagues. Community and Professional Dedication: This role embodies leadership, partnership, collaboration, and supervision, fostering collaborative relationships with physicians, healthcare providers, patients, and families to ensure optimal patient outcomes across the care spectrum. Moreover, the Professional Staff Nurse exhibits unwavering dedication to both the community and the nursing profession.

Benefits:

Sign-On Bonus: This position is eligible for up to a generous $20,000 Sign-On Bonus with a 2-year commitment for experienced Registered Nurses with more than 1 year of experience. Competitive Wages: Competitive wages, with the highest BSN differential in the greater Pittsburgh area. Float Pool Premium: Our Float Pool pays 10% on top of the base rate. Benefits Package: An incomparable benefits package, including tuition reimbursement. Top Clinicians and Technology: Work alongside top clinicians, leading researchers, and the most modern equipment and technology in health care today.

Support for Nurses:

Financial and Professional Investment: 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. Loan Repayment Program: UPMC’s brand new Monthly Loan Repayment program, exclusively for 2024 nursing graduates, offering $20,000* in loan repayment paid over three years (*Eligible flex full-time RN roles to receive prorated amount). Paid Time Off: Up to five and a half weeks of Paid Time Off annually, plus seven paid holidays each year. Career Ladders: Dedicated career ladders, including a brand-new nursing career ladder added just this year, allowing you to achieve your highest potential while rewarding you for your experience and advanced education. Tuition Reimbursement: 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).

Apply Today! The Professional Staff Nurse is a valued step in the UPMC nursing career ladder, with opportunities for advancement and continued growth. Final candidates will be selected for a job title within the career ladder that reflects level of education, experience, and manager discretion at the time of offer.

Responsibilities:

Quality Improvement: Actively participates in department or unit-specific quality improvement efforts. Identifies opportunities for improvement and communicates them to colleagues and management. Takes personal responsibility for enhancing patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service. Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support clinical care improvements, discusses opportunities at multidisciplinary rounds, and influences patients’ plans of care.

Relationship-Based Care: 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, involving them as partners and considering their individual needs holistically. Demonstrates critical thinking in identifying clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues within an episode of care. Practices solid communication skills, articulates and translates the patient’s condition to other care providers, and negotiates and recommends changes in patient care and unit practices. Ensures comprehensive patient documentation to promote communication between caregivers. Incorporates goals from national professional organizations, business units, and health systems to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction. Creates a caring and compassionate patient-focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.

Professional Relationships: Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability, enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues. Understands cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships. Maintains a balance between work and personal life, models safe work hours, time management, and a healthy lifestyle. Communicates any identified safety hazards in the workplace to peers and management.

Professional Development: Demonstrates accountability for professional development that enhances the quality of practice and patient care. Actively participates in unit-based shared governance, goal setting, and supports the change and transition process to improve care quality and the practice environment. Serves as an engaged and full partner on the care team, responding willingly to team member needs for assistance and partnership. Participates in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment. Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility with the change process.

Teaching and Mentorship: Demonstrates knowledge of adult learning principles (and/or teaching children if applicable) and applies them in teaching patients, families, students, and new staff. Provides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to guide them through the episode of care and transition to another level of care or home. Supports the development of students, new staff, and colleagues, and may serve as a preceptor. Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.