Clinical Nurse 2- HUP ED Observation Unit- Full-Time, Day Shift

About the role

The HUP Emergency Department Observation Unit (EDOU) is a 41-bed short-stay unit spread over two floors where patients from the ED receive continued monitoring, typically for 24–48 hours, while undergoing additional testing, evaluation, and specialty consults. As part of a Comprehensive Stroke Center, the EDOU plays a pivotal role in diagnosing ischemic neurologic conditions and works closely with cardiac patients to meet the hospital’s AHA Gold Plus designation as a STEMI receiving center. The unit frequently cares for medicine, oncology, gynecology, hematology, and transplant patients. Nurses function as part of an interdisciplinary team in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing patient wellness and safety while delivering compassionate, meaningful care.

Responsibilities

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague practices as a full partner on the health care team, independently providing patient care through the nursing process and accepting accountability for assigned patients (infancy through elderly). The role demonstrates competence across the following professional practice domains:

• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): Utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
• Evidence Based Practice and Research: Evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for optimal health care and system effectiveness.
• Leadership: Collaborates effectively and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine.
• Person and Family Centered Care: Recognizes the patient (or designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate, coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Professionalism: Demonstrates commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization, and advancing community outreach.
• Safety: Minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers, and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Technology/Informatics: Utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
• Teamwork: Effectively engages in cooperation, coordination, and collaboration to provide safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter- and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague works closely with the interprofessional health care team to facilitate coordination of care across the continuum, expands knowledge and skills to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations, seeks feedback in assuming leadership roles, provides feedback for improved clinical practice, demonstrates how nursing practice impacts organizational vision, mission, and goals, and complies with all regulations and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies.

Requirements

• Licensure: Registered Nurse – Pennsylvania (required)
• Certification: Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS/CPR) as a healthcare provider per American Heart Association (required)
• Education: Bachelor of Arts or Science (required); BSN from an accredited school of nursing (required)
• Experience: More than 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience and completion of the Nurse Residency Program, if applicable

Benefits

Penn Medicine offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region, helping employees get healthy and stay healthy.

Schedule

Full-time, day shift (7:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.) with an every-third-weekend requirement.