Sr. Professional Staff Nurse - EMERGENCY Dept.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to improve clinical quality, patient outcomes, and workplace practices.
• Apply evidence-based practice in daily patient care.
• Participate in or lead initiatives that improve patient care and promote a healthy work environment.
• Demonstrate advanced clinical assessment, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Serve as a role model for professional nursing practice.
• Act as a clinical expert, educator, resource nurse, and/or evidence-based practice champion.
• Provide constructive feedback to members of the healthcare team.
• Participate in nursing peer review and shared governance activities.
• Serve on unit-based and hospital-wide councils and committees.

Education & Staff Development

• Precept and mentor students, graduate nurses, and newly hired staff.
• Identify learning opportunities that enhance patient care and team performance.
• Support continuous learning through research, professional resources, unit presentations, and journal clubs.
• Seek and incorporate feedback for professional growth and development.

Patient Care & Relationship-Based Practice

• Apply the nursing process within the framework of Relationship-Based Care.
• Develop individualized plans of care that address patients’ physical, emotional, social, psychological, and spiritual needs.
• Partner with patients and families to establish daily goals and promote healing environments.
• Communicate effectively with interdisciplinary team members to ensure high-quality, coordinated care.
• Maintain comprehensive and accurate patient documentation.
• Promote patient safety, quality outcomes, and an exceptional patient experience.

Teamwork & Healthy Workplace Culture

• Foster positive working relationships with colleagues and interdisciplinary team members.
• Promote a respectful, inclusive, and culturally aware work environment.
• Help prevent and address workplace conflict, incivility, and impairment concerns.
• Balance priorities effectively through organization, delegation, and accountability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of RN experience required.
• Demonstrated ability to provide age-appropriate care across the lifespan.
• Strong clinical judgment, critical thinking, problem-solving, and assessment skills.
• Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with patients, families, providers, leaders, and staff.
• Physical ability to stand, walk, lift, and assist with patient positioning as needed.

Professional Requirements

• Maintain a Solid/Strong/Good or higher annual performance evaluation.
• Complete an approved professional contribution annually or obtain and maintain a UPMC-approved nursing certification within one year of hire/transfer.
• Certification requirement may be waived for nurses with a Master’s in Nursing or DNP.

Licensure & Certifications

• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in Pennsylvania or a qualifying Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) state.
• BLS/CPR certification required within 30 days of hire (AHA standards).