RN Neonatal ICU (Weekend Program), West Penn Hospital

West Penn Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is a 63-bed Level III Nursery. The hospital holds Magnet® recognition, offers private patient rooms, free employee parking, and a generous benefit package for full-time and part-time employees.

About the Role

The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families. The RN is fully responsible for all actions as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered.

Responsibilities

• Provides transformational leadership in a professional practice setting by striving to create and participate in the future of healthcare.
• Acts as a team player who contributes to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
• Assigns or delegates tasks based on patient needs and the skill level of the RN, LPN, or support staff, including assigning duties and lunches when performing charge role.
• Considers maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of intervention, and predictability of outcome.
• Provides peers with both verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
• Shares knowledge and skills with peers and colleagues, cultivating a work environment that promotes positive employee attitudes, effective communication, trust, and collaboration.
• Fosters a culture where risk-taking is safe, creativity and adaptability are expected, and mistakes are openly addressed.
• Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care or health services.
• Promotes patient safety initiatives (e.g., National Patient Safety Goals).
• Participates in department-specific quality initiatives (e.g., evidence-based practice for population-specific care).
• Ensures appropriate order sets are used.
• Supervises and evaluates assigned LPNs within their scope of practice.
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, evaluate, and implement a patient plan of care according to individual needs as prescribed by physicians, nurses, and hospital policy, including patient and family involvement.
• Derives culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes involving the patient, family, and other healthcare providers.
• Analyzes health status data to determine patient care needs, comparing findings with established norms.
• Assesses patient reports/records for changes in condition, notifies physicians or supervisors, intervenes appropriately, and documents accordingly.
• Accepts assignments in areas other than the primary unit and performs duties within individualized competency.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuous lifelong learning and professional development for self and others.
• Promotes advancement of the profession through participation in professional organizations.
• Seeks formal and independent learning activities using current research and evidence to maintain and develop clinical skills and knowledge.
• Participates in systematic peer review and obtains informal feedback on practice from patients, peers, and colleagues.
• Identifies areas of strength and opportunities for professional development.
• Meets time and attendance guidelines per hospital policy.
• Places the patient at the center of care by evaluating and assessing patient and family satisfaction and acting as an advocate.
• Participates in department-specific patient satisfaction initiatives.
• Promotes compassionate, patient- and family-centered communication.
• Assesses and attempts to resolve patient/family concerns.
• Utilizes effective time management skills to complete duties within the established work shift.

Requirements

• Minimum of two years of RN experience within the previous five-year period.
• Current State of PA RN licensure OR current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
• CPR Certification.
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in area of specialty.

Benefits

Generous benefit package available for full-time and part-time status employees.