Professional Staff Nurse - Pain Management

Join Our Growing Pain Management Team at UPMC Kane!

Are you a dedicated nurse looking for a flexible schedule and a rewarding opportunity to grow your career? UPMC Kane's Pain Management practice is seeking a Part-Time Professional Staff Nurse to join our expanding team! Enjoy 34 ten-hour shifts Monday through Fridayno weekends or holidays required. In this dynamic role, you'll support a busy Pain Management provider with a mix of hands-on clinical procedures and administrative responsibilities. Be part of a practice that's making a real impact while enjoying UPMC's Total Rewards Benefits package and endless opportunities for career growth and development. Apply today and help shape the future of pain management care in our community!

In this role, there will be the opportunity to:

• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with patients, colleagues, and external partners.
• Demonstrate accountability, motivation, and commitment to a collaborative care environment.
• Model healthy work-life balance, time management, and safe work practices.
• Communicate safety concerns and workplace hazards to peers and management.
• Apply adult (or pediatric, if applicable) learning principles to educate patients, families, and staff.
• Provide clear and effective teaching to support patients through their care journey and transitions.
• Support new staff and students through mentoring and serve as a preceptor when needed.
• Create a culture of open communication, feedback, and continuous development.
• Apply the nursing process using Relationship-Based Care to create a healing environment.
• Develop individualized plans of care in partnership with patients.
• Identify and address clinical, emotional, and spiritual needs through critical thinking.
• Practice strong communication to coordinate care and advocate for patient needs.
• Document thoroughly to support effective communication across the care team.
• Align care practices with professional standards and organizational goals to improve outcomes.
• Build compassionate, healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.
• Engage in professional development to improve practice and patient care quality.
• Participate in shared governance, goal setting, and change initiatives.
• Collaborate fully with the care team and offer assistance as needed.
• Contribute to efforts that enhance patient care and the practice environment.
• Adapt to change with a positive and flexible approach.
• Participate in unit-based quality improvement efforts and identify improvement opportunities.
• Take ownership of enhancing patient satisfaction and care experience.
• Utilize evidence-based practice to support clinical improvement and influence patient plans.
• Perform in accordance with system-wide competencies and behaviors.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required:

• 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 patients status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patients requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.
• Zero to two years of experience.
• 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.

Preferred:

• BSN

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

• UPMC approved national certification preferred.
• 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.
• CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.
• 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.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)
• 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