Professional Staff Nurse - 6 South

UPMC; Erie (Erie County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

RN-to-BSN/MSN pathways

Career Ladder

Job summary

UPMC Hamot in Erie, PA is seeking a Full-Time Professional Staff Nurse for nights on 6 South, a 43-bed unit specializing in Cardiovascular, Renal Transplant, and Surgical Care. The RN role emphasizes telemetry monitoring, oxygen therapy, and comprehensive patient care for adults post-surgery and transplant.

Responsibility includes leadership, teaching, and coordinating care with physicians and the care team.

Qualifications

• Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in PA or eligible
• Experience with telemetry and adult medical-surgical care preferred
• Strong critical thinking and clinical judgment for complex patients

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains productive working relationships with patients and colleagues.
• Demonstrates understanding of cultural differences and accountability for healthy relationships.
• Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry and continuous development by seeking feedback and improving practice.
• Applies the nursing process within Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment.
• Creates a caring and compassionate patient-focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families and colleagues.

Skills

RN licensed

Telemetry monitoring

Critical thinking

Patient education

Education

RN license

BSN preferred

Tools

EMR system

Job description

Full-Time Professional Staff Nurse - Nights | 6 South

UPMC Hamot | Erie, PA

Join our dedicated team on 6 South, a 43-bed Cardiovascular, Renal Transplant, and Surgical Specialty Acute Care Unit at UPMC Hamot. This fast-paced medical-surgical unit provides specialized care for adult patients recovering from cardiothoracic, vascular, and bariatric surgeries, as well as kidney transplant donors and recipients.

Nurses on 6 South care for patients requiring telemetry and oxygen monitoring, including CPAP, BiPAP, and Optiflow therapies. The unit offers valuable experience managing glycemic control, vasoactive medications, hemodynamic monitoring, anti-arrhythmic therapies, electrolyte replacement, and continuous cardiac monitoring. This is an excellent opportunity for nurses seeking to expand their clinical expertise while providing exceptional patient-centered care.

Position Summary

The Professional Staff Nurse (RN) is an integral member of the care delivery team responsible for providing high-quality patient care and coordinating care for a designated group of patients and their families. In this role, you will utilize critical thinking, clinical judgment, and effective communication to collaborate with physicians, interdisciplinary team members, patients, and families to achieve optimal outcomes.

Professional Staff Nurses demonstrate leadership, accountability, and a commitment to excellence while fostering a culture of teamwork, patient safety, and continuous professional growth.

Why UPMC?

UPMC is committed to investing in nurses from day one, offering opportunities for professional development, career advancement, and financial support throughout your nursing career.

What We Offer:

• Up to a $20,000 Sign-On Bonus for eligible experienced nurses
• Up to 5.5 weeks of paid time off annually, plus seven paid holidays
• Career Ladder opportunities that reward experience, education, and professional growth
• Tuition reimbursement up to $6,000 per year for employees and eligible dependents
• Access to educational discounts, including no-cost RN-to-BSN and MSN pathways
• A collaborative environment focused on professional development and clinical excellence

Title and salary will be determined based on education and nursing experience.

Responsibilities:

• Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation and commitment to patients and colleagues.
• Demonstrates an understanding of cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships.
• Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life.
• Models safe work hours, time management and healthy lifestyle.
• Communicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace.
• Demonstrates knowledge of adult learning principles (and/or teaching children if applicable) and applies in teaching of patients, families, students and new staff.
• Provides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to effectively guide them through the episode of care as well as transition to another level of care and/or home.
• Supports the 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 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.
• Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological and spiritual issues for the patient care within an episode of care.
• 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.
• Incorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's 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 that improves the quality of professional practice and the quality of patient care.
• Actively participates in unit-based shared governance, goal setting and supports the change and transition process to improve quality of care and the practice environment.
• Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care 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.
• Actively participates in department or unit-specific quality improvement efforts.
• Identifies opportunity for quality improvement to colleagues and management.
• Takes personal responsibility in improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service.
• Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support improvement in clinical care: identifies research issues or articles related to clinical specialty or areas of interest, discusses opportunities for quality improvement at multidisciplinary rounds, and influences patients' plans of care.