Description
UPMC Union Deposit Family Care is looking to add a Professional Staff Nurse (RN) to their office. The RN is a Registered Nurse is a highly valued member of the care delivery team. The RN should be a multi-tasker, team player, and be willing to assist clinical staff where needed.
Hours: Monday-Friday flexible between the hours of 7am-5pm. Could potentially need to cover Saturday morning rotation 8am-12pm
Responsibilities:
- Room patients, obtain VS, weight, medical history, and review medications
- Perform phlebotomy, injections, assist physicians with procedures
- Provides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to effectively guide them through the episode of care both in the office setting and via phone/written communication when at home.
- Assist with prior authorizations and medication refills
- Actively participates in department or practice-specific quality improvement efforts.
- Identifies opportunity for quality improvement to colleagues and management.
- Takes personal responsibility in improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service.
- Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment.
- Good clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving abilities required as related to various aspects of patient care.
- Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and to lead others in application of the nursing process.
- Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support improvement in clinical care: identifies research issues or articles related to clinical specialty or areas of interest
- Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families.
- Supports the development of students, new staff and colleagues
- Formulates goals and a plan of care for patients that involves the patient as partner and considers the individual needs of the patient in a holistic manner.
- Triages patient situations and coordinates care with physician
- Patient documentation is comprehensive and promotes communication between caregivers. Incorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality and satisfaction.
- Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families and colleagues.
Qualifications
- Minimum six months experience preferred, but not required.
- New RN grads welcome to apply
- BSN preferred, not required
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse in practicing state.
CPR Certification, UPMC approved national certification preferred
CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire
- Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)
- Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal
- Act 33 with renewal
- Act 34 with renewal
- Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
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