CLINICIAN, 7 SOUTH

Job ID: 6694949148
Status: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Shift: Day Job
Facility: UPMC Western Maryland
Department: 7 South Oncology
Location: 12500 Willowbrook Rd, Cumberland, MD
Union Position: No
Salary Range: $ 39.84-53.05 USD
Join our 7 South team as a Clinician or Clinician Fellow! If you are an experienced RN looking to gain leadership experience, take a look at our opening below.
In this role, you’ll be a key player in enhancing nursing practice and patient care. You’ll work closely with management on staff evaluations, hiring, and performance management. Your expertise in clinical practice, teaching, and evidence-based practice will help ensure top-notch patient outcomes. You’ll also provide valuable education and support to our staff. If you’re passionate about nursing and community care, we’d love to have you on board!
7 South is a telemetry medical-surgical unit that specializes in respiratory distress, COPD, heart failure, and post-op including ENT, watchman devices, urological, and gynecological procedures.
This is a full-time, dayshift position that doesn’t work holidays, but will work every other weekend. Final candidate will be placed into the appropriate rate and title based on experience and education.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Demonstrated competence as a Professional Staff Nurse.
• Ability to provide care and interact appropriately with patients of all ages.
• Knowledge of growth and development principles over the lifespan.
• Ability to assess and interpret patient data to identify age-specific needs.
• Minimum 2 years of experience.
• If BSN not at time of hire, must enroll in a program within one year and complete it within three years.
• MSN or CNL preferred.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families.
• Ability to work effectively in a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities, and use specialized equipment.
• Exemplary clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Critical thinking skills necessary to lead others in the nursing process.
• Mobility and visual manual dexterity.
• Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients.

• Serve as a leader in clinical nursing practice, identifying patient and staff-focused opportunities for improvement and leading the change process.
• Identify, educate, and support the psychological and learning needs of staff during change and transition.
• Practice participatory leadership and be an active member of shared leadership at the unit, facility, or system level.
• Assume formal leadership responsibilities for quality improvement, evidence-based practice, GN or new hire onboarding.
• Assist the Unit/Department Leader with the peer review process.
• Apply nursing knowledge and skills within the framework of Relationship-Based Care to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients and families.
• Practice solid verbal and written communication skills, articulating and translating patient conditions to other care providers and negotiating recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices.
• Ensure comprehensive patient documentation to promote communication between caregivers.
• Demonstrate critical thinking in analyzing clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues for patient care within an episode of care.
• Incorporate national professional organization goals and health system goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction in daily work.
• Create a caring and compassionate patient-focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.
• Disseminate new knowledge and innovations through presentations, posters, and publications.
• Demonstrate knowledge of performance improvement tools and techniques, continuously improving the quality of care and work environment outcomes.
• Share learning from improvements with other units and/or spread across the business unit or system.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships internally and externally by building teams and relationships through mentoring and positive communication.
• Coach colleagues on cultural diversity and address workplace horizontal violence and impairment.
• Demonstrate accountability to self and others for safe work hours, time management, and healthy lifestyles.
• Show interest in the development of others, positively impacting the lives of patients/families, peers, and healthcare team members through mentoring, education, and knowledge sharing.
• Actively participate as a preceptor for student nurses, nurse interns, graduate and experienced nurses, and assist with the development of new preceptors.
• Mentor and role model continuous learning through formal education and the development of others.
• Seek opportunities to share expertise with other healthcare team members within and beyond the clinical unit/department.