Experienced Registered Nurse Medical Cardiology/Internal Medicine

at  UPMC

JOIN UPMC SHADYSIDE’S MEDICINE & CARDIOLOGY TEAM AS AN EXPERT NURSE!

• Sign-On Bonus: $20,000 for experienced nurses
• Experienced RNs: Full-Time positions available for RN’s with 4 or more years of experience to be hired at our Expert Nurse level on the career ladder
• Unit: 4 Pavilion/South Medical Cardiology/Internal Medicine
• About UPMC Shadyside: A Magnet-designated teaching hospital with ongoing research and education

Developing Others:

• Passionately precepts students, graduate nurses, and new hires.
• Analyzes clinical and behavioral situations to identify learning opportunities.
• Seeks feedback and applies continuous professional improvement.
• Supports continuous learning by sharing research, presenting on the unit, and supporting journal clubs.

Patient Care:

• Applies the nursing process within Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment.
• Formulates daily goals and care plans with patients as partners.
• Practices solid communication skills to articulate patient conditions and recommend care changes.
• Ensures comprehensive patient documentation to promote caregiver communication.
• Demonstrates critical thinking in identifying clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues.
• Incorporates goals from national professional organizations and health systems to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction.
• Builds healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.

Workplace Relationships:

• Builds and mends relationships among colleagues within a healthy workplace framework.
• Role models cultural awareness and addresses horizontal violence and impairment.
• Maintains a balance between work and personal life through prioritization and delegation.

Quality Improvement:

• Identifies opportunities for clinical quality and workplace improvement.
• Applies evidence-based practice regularly.
• Serves on or leads teams that innovate in patient care or support a healthy workforce.

Professional Leadership:

• Serves as a role model in clinical expertise, teaching, specialized resource nursing, and evidence-based practice.
• Provides appropriate feedback to healthcare team members and participates in nursing peer review.
• Promotes changes that enhance patient care quality and the unit environment.
• Leads and participates in successful teams as part of daily practice.
• Demonstrates advanced clinical assessment and analytical skills within Relationship Based Care.
• Actively participates in shared governance at the unit level and serves on hospital-wide councils.

General Duties:

• Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies and behaviors.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Minimum 4 years of experience.
• BSN preferred.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and interact appropriately with patients of all ages.
• Understands principles of growth and development over the lifespan.
• Ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret information to identify age-specific needs.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families.
• Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities, and specialized equipment.
• Exemplary clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and lead others in the application of the nursing process.
• Mobility and visual manual dexterity.
• Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients.
• Must obtain a Solid/Strong/Good or higher on a Professional Staff Nurse Performance Evaluation to be promoted to this level.
• Must maintain a Solid/Strong/Good or higher on annual performance evaluation to maintain status.