Registered Nurse (RN) - Operating Room

Company: UPMC - Pittsburgh Medical Center
Location: Washington
Posted on: July 5, 2025

Job Description:

Job Description UPMC Washington is hiring a Future Graduate or Registered Nurse to support our Operating Room! /n We offer flexible shift options: /n /n - Four 10-hour shifts /n - Two 8-hour shifts and two 12-hour shifts /n /n Typical shift start time is 6:30 AM, with occasional 8:30 AM starts for 10-hour shifts. On-call hours are required off-shift Monday through Friday, as well as weekends and holidays as needed. /n Purpose: The Professional Staff Nurse, BSN OR is a Registered Nurse and a key member of the care delivery team. This role is responsible for setting the standards for the level and quality of care, and has the authority and accountability for the provision of nursing care. The Professional Staff Nurse, BSN OR manages and provides patient care activities for a group of patients and their families through independent judgment, communication, and collaboration with all team members. This role encompasses leadership, partnership, collaboration, and supervision, establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with physicians, other health care providers, patients, and their families to achieve desired patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care. The Professional Staff Nurse, BSN OR demonstrates a commitment to the community and the nursing profession. /n Responsibilities: /n /n - Demonstrates accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and patient care. /n - Actively participates in unit-based shared governance, goal setting, and supports the change and transition process to improve quality of care and the practice environment. /n - Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team, responding willingly to care team member needs for assistance and partnership. /n - Participates in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment, adapting to change and demonstrating flexibility with the change process. /n - Applies the nursing process within the framework of Relationship-Based Care to create a healing environment, formulating daily goals and a plan of care for patients that involves the patient as a partner and considers their individual needs holistically. /n - Demonstrates critical thinking in identifying clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues for patient care within an episode of care. /n - Practices solid communication skills, articulating and translating the patient's condition to other care providers, negotiating and making recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices. /n - Ensures comprehensive patient documentation that promotes communication between caregivers. /n - Incorporates national professional organization goals as well as business unit and health system goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction. /n - Creates a caring and compassionate patient-focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues. /n - Demonstrates knowledge of adult learning principles (and/or teaching children if applicable) and applies them in teaching patients, families, students, and new staff. /n - Provides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to effectively guide them through the episode of care and transition to another level of care or home. /n - Supports the development of students, new staff, and colleagues, potentially serving as a preceptor. /n - Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice. /n - Actively participates in department or unit-specific quality improvement efforts, identifying opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management. /n - Takes personal responsibility in improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service. /n - Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support improvement in clinical care, identifying research issues or articles related to clinical specialty or areas of interest, discussing opportunities for quality improvement at multidisciplinary rounds, and influencing patients' plans of care. /n - Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues. /n - Demonstrates an understanding of cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships. /n - Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life, modeling safe work hours, time management, and a healthy lifestyle. /n - Communicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace. /n - Performs scrub role (requirement for RNs hired on or after July 1, 2023). /n - Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors. /n - Performs other duties as assigned. /n The individual must demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and interact appropriately with patients of all ages served by their assigned unit. They must understand the principles of growth and development across the lifespan and be able to assess data reflective of the patient's status. This includes interpreting the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's age-specific requirements and providing the necessary care as described in department policies and procedures. /n Experience and Education: /n /n - Zero to two years of experience. /n - BSN preferred. /n /n Skills and Abilities: /n /n - Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families. /n - Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handling multiple and changing priorities and specialized equipment. /n - Good clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving abilities related to various aspects of patient care. /n - Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and lead others in the application of the nursing process. /n - Mobility and visual manual dexterity. /n - Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients. /n /n Flexible Work Options: UPMC offers a variety of flexible options. In addition to traditional rotating/flexible shifts, special programs exist to work primarily night shifts or weekend shifts with a premium pay differential. Employees hired into or who choose to transition into one of these programs must have at least 6 months of nursing experience to qualify and may be required to complete any necessary orientation during regular business hours. If you are interested in these programs, please alert your recruiter when contacted for an interview. /n Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances: /n /n - UPMC-approved national certification preferred. /n - Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse in the state where the facility is located or in a state covered by a licensure compact agreement. /n - CPR certification based on AHA standards, including both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire. /n - Graduate nurses must complete the licensure examination within six months of hire or within one year of graduation, whichever comes first. Though temporary permits are valid for one year from the date of graduation, UPMC requires that GNs take the licensure examination within six months of their start date or they will be terminated or demoted from the GN position, at the discretion of the BU. /n /n Required Certifications: /n /n - Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) /n - Registered Nurse (RN) or Temporary Practice Permit (TPP) /n - Act 33 with renewal /n - Act 34 with renewal /n - Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal /n /n Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state. /n UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

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