Professional Staff Nurse, Heart & Vascular Institute

UPMC Hamot is hiring a Professional Staff Nurse to join our Heart & Vascular Institute team! If you're passionate about providing exceptional patient care in a collaborative healthcare environment, we encourage you to apply today.

Our HVI nurses support cardiologists and advanced practice providers (APPs) in delivering specialized cardiac care, including patient triage, result management, nurse visits, and care coordination.

This position is full-time, Monday- Friday 8am-4:30pm. Two years of previous nursing experience highly preferred.

Purpose: The Professional Staff Nurse is a registered nurse who is responsible and accountable for providing high-quality patient care. In this role, they manage the care of patients and their families, using independent judgment, effective communication, and collaboration with the healthcare team to achieve positive outcomes. They work closely with physicians, other healthcare providers, patients, and families throughout the continuum of care while upholding nursing standards and demonstrating a commitment to both the community and the nursing profession.

Responsibilities

Participates in quality improvement initiatives and promotes evidence-based practice to enhance patient care and satisfaction.

• Identifies opportunities for clinical and operational improvements and shares recommendations with colleagues and leadership.

• Builds and maintains positive relationships with patients, families, physicians, providers, leaders, and support staff.

• Demonstrates strong critical thinking, clinical judgment, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Effectively manages multiple priorities in a complex healthcare environment.

• Educates and supports patients, families, students, new staff, and colleagues using adult learning principles.

• Encourages open communication, feedback, continuous learning, and professional growth.

• Develops and coordinates individualized patient care plans in collaboration with patients and physicians.

• Assists with patient assessment, evaluation, education, triage, and care coordination.

• Identifies and addresses clinical, social, psychological, safety, and spiritual patient care needs.

• Communicates patient information effectively and maintains comprehensive documentation.

• Supports patient safety, quality, and satisfaction initiatives aligned with organizational goals.

• Creates a compassionate, patient-centered care experience.

• Demonstrates accountability for professional development and ongoing improvement of patient care.

• Participates in shared governance, goal setting, and change management initiatives.

• Collaborates effectively as an engaged member of the care team and provides support when needed.

• Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility in a dynamic environment.

• Promotes a positive, respectful, and culturally inclusive workplace.

• Demonstrates accountability, professionalism, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues.

• Supports workplace safety, healthy work-life balance, and effective time management.

• Maintains the physical abilities required for patient care, including walking, standing, lifting, and patient positioning.

• 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 patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.

Minimum six months experience preferred. BSN preferred.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.

• Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)

• 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.

• Act 34

• 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.

• 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.

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