Professional Staff Nurse - IV Team

Are you skilled in IV insertions and passionate about providing top-notch patient care? UPMC East’s IV Therapy Team is looking for a dedicated IV Nurse to join their team! If you have basic nursing experience and excel in IV insertion proficiency, including central lines, phlebotomy, and O2 insertions, Apply Now!

This position is full-time. The employee is required to work 3 12-hour shifts, primarily daylight and weekend hours. The employee potentially has an option to work nights, but not as frequently.

 $15,000 Sign On Bonus Eligible for Experienced Nurses!

Your Role:

As a Professional Staff Nurse, you will be a Registered Nurse and an integral member of our care delivery team. You will set the standards for the level and quality of care, holding responsibility, authority, and accountability for the provision of nursing care. Your role involves managing and providing patient care activities for a group of patients and their families through the application of independent judgment, effective communication, and collaboration with all team members.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership & Partnership: Lead and partner with your team to ensure the highest quality of care.
• Collaboration & Supervision: Collaborate with physicians, other healthcare providers, patients, and their families to achieve desired patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care.
• Commitment to Excellence: Demonstrate a commitment to the community and the nursing profession by establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships.

Join us and make a difference in the lives of your patients while advancing your career in a supportive and dynamic environment.

Responsibilities:

Relationship Building:

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships internally and externally.

• Demonstrate accountability, enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues.

• Understand cultural differences and hold peers accountable for healthy relationships.

• Maintain a balance between work and personal life, modeling safe work hours, time management, and a healthy lifestyle.

• Communicate any safety hazards identified in the workplace to peers and management.

Patient and Family Education:

• Demonstrate knowledge of adult learning principles (and/or teaching children if applicable).

• Provide detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to guide them through the episode of care and transition to another level of care or home.

• Support the development of students, new staff, and colleagues, and may serve as a preceptor.

• Create an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.

Nursing Process and Care Planning:

• Apply the nursing process within the framework of Relationship-Based Care to create a healing environment.

• Formulate daily goals and a plan of care for patients that involve the patient as a partner and consider their individual needs holistically.

• Demonstrate critical thinking in identifying clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues for patient care within an episode of care.

• Practice solid communication skills, articulate and translate the patient's condition to other care providers, and make recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices.

• Ensure comprehensive patient documentation to promote communication between caregivers.

• Incorporate national professional organization goals and health system goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction.

• Create a caring and compassionate patient-focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.

Professional Development:

• Demonstrate accountability for professional development to improve the quality of professional practice and patient care.

• Actively participate in unit-based shared governance, goal setting, and support the change and transition process to improve quality of care and the practice environment.

• Serve as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team, responding willingly to care team member needs for assistance and partnership.

• Participate in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment.

• Adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility with the change process.

Quality Improvement:

• Actively participate in department or unit-specific quality improvement efforts.

• Identify opportunities for quality improvement and communicate them to colleagues and management.

• Take personal responsibility for improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service.

• Utilize research and evidence-based practice to support improvement in clinical care.

• Identify research issues or articles related to clinical specialty or areas of interest.

• Discuss opportunities for quality improvement at multidisciplinary rounds and influence patients' plans of care.