Professional Staff Nurse, Mom-Baby Unit

UPMC; Erie (Erie County); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

UPMC Hamot's Women's Hospital is seeking a Casual Professional Staff Nurse for the Mom-Baby unit. Candidates should have previous inpatient nursing experience, critical thinking skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with healthcare teams. This role emphasizes patient care, leadership, and quality improvement, offering a chance to make a significant impact in a nurturing environment. Join UPMC and contribute to delivering compassionate care to families in the community.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year of nursing experience required.
• BSN preferred.
• Strong clinical judgment and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Delivers high-quality patient care in the Mom-Baby unit.
• Leads nursing processes and collaborates with healthcare teams.
• Participates in quality improvement efforts.

Skills

Critical Thinking

Communication

Leadership

Supervision

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Registered Nurse (RN)

Tools

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

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UPMC Hamot's Women's Hospital is hiring a Casual Professional Staff Nurse to join the Mom-Baby unit!

Previous Inpatient Nursing Experience Highly Preferred.

Title and Salary will be determined based upon education and experience.

Purpose: The Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse who plays a key role in delivering high-quality patient care. They are accountable for setting care standards, managing patient care, and collaborating with healthcare teams. Their responsibilities include leadership, communication, and supervision, ensuring positive outcomes for patients and their families. They also foster strong relationships with physicians and other providers and demonstrate a commitment to both the community and the nursing profession.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills to care for patients across age groups, per unit-specific requirements.
• Understands growth and development principles across the lifespan.
• Assesses and interprets patient data to meet age-specific care needs.
• Minimum of 1 year of nursing experience required. BSN preferred.
• Builds and maintains positive, caring relationships with all levels of staff and patients/families.
• Functions effectively in complex environments with shifting priorities and specialized equipment.
• Strong clinical judgment, critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Leads others in applying the nursing process.
• Requires mobility, manual dexterity, and physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and patient positioning.
  
  

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 national certification preferred.
• 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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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