Sr. Professional Staff Nurse, Mom-Baby

Professional Staff Nurse Opportunity at UPMC Hamot's Women's Hospital

UPMC Hamot's Women's Hospital is hiring a professional staff nurse to join the Mom-Baby unit! The mother-baby unit is a level 3 nursery with 24 beds, offering family-centered couplet care. Our skilled nurses provide a wide range of maternal and infant care, from blood administration and IV medications to lactation support and patient education. We prioritize trust, assess individual needs, and ensure a safe transition to parenthood and home.

Previous nursing experience in women's health strongly preferred.

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:

Sign-on bonus details (full-time status): $15,000 sign-on bonus available for nurses with over one year of experience.

• Up to five and a half weeks of paid time off annually, plus seven paid holidays each year
• 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.

Purpose: The senior professional staff nurse is a registered nurse who leads and delivers high-quality patient care. They are accountable for setting care standards, managing patient care, and collaborating with healthcare teams. This role involves leadership, communication, and partnership with patients, families, and other providers to ensure optimal outcomes. The nurse also demonstrates a strong commitment to both the community and the nursing profession.

Responsibilities:

• Identifies opportunities for clinical quality as well as workplace improvement. Applies evidence based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice. Serves on or leads teams that launch innovations in patient care or support a healthy workforce.
• Serves as a role model of professional nursing practice by serving as a recognized unit leader in one or more of the following areas: clinical expertise, teacher, specialized resource nurse, and/or evidence based practice. Consistently gives appropriate feedback to all members of the health care team and participates in the nursing peer review process.
• Promotes change that enhances the quality of patient care and the unit environment. Serves on teams and leads successful teams as a part of daily practice. Demonstrates highly developed clinical assessment and analytical skills within the context of relationship based care. Actively participates in shared governance at unit level and serves on hospital-wide councils.
• Demonstrates a passion for developing others, enthusiastically and expertly precepts students, graduate nurses and new hires. Analyzes clinical and behavioral situations, identifying learning opportunities to improve patient care practices. Regularly seeks feedback on performance and applies continuous professional improvement.
• Supports continuous learning in the clinical area by sharing research, materials from professional organizations, presenting on the unit, supporting journal clubs, etc.
• 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.
• Practices solid communication skills, and is able to articulate and translate the patient's condition to other care providers and to negotiate and make recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices. Patient documentation is comprehensive and promotes communication between caregivers.
• Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological and spiritual issues for the patient care within an episode of care. Incorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality and satisfaction of the patient experience in daily work. Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families and colleagues.
• Builds and mends relationships among colleagues within the framework of a healthy workplace. Role models keen cultural awareness including preventing and addressing horizontal violence and impairment.
• Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life through prioritization and delegation of responsibilities.

Demonstrates knowledge and skills to provide age-appropriate care based on unit-specific patient populations. Understands principles of growth and development across the lifespan. Assesses and interprets patient data to meet age-specific care needs per department policies.

• Minimum of 2 years of nursing experience required. BSN preferred.
• Must achieve and maintain a solid/strong/good or higher rating on the professional staff nurse performance evaluation for promotion and continued status.
• Builds and maintains positive, caring relationships with all levels of staff, departments, and patients/families.
• Effectively functions in complex environments with shifting priorities and specialized equipment. Exhibits strong clinical judgment, critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Leads others in applying the nursing process using critical thinking. Requires mobility, visual/manual dexterity, and physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and patient positioning.
• Must complete an annual professional contribution aligned with department, hospital, or system goals, approved by the unit director.
• Must obtain and maintain a UPMC-approved nursing certification within 1 year of hire/transfer, unless holding a master's in nursing or DNP. If holding a BSN, a master's degree in a related field may substitute for certification.

Licensure, certifications, and clearances:

• 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.
• Registered nurse (RN)
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI clearance with renewal
• UPMC approved nursing certification preferred.
• Annual completion of a professional contributions selected from department, hospital or system goals, and approved by unit director or UPMC approved nursing certification required within 1 year of hire/transfer and must be maintained. Or certification not required if master's in nursing or DNP is held. If a BSN is held, a master's degree in a related field may be substituted in lieu of certification.

*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