RN (Union) - Acute Care

UPMC Somerset is looking for nurses to join the Acute Care units! If you are searching for a fast-paced, exciting career that allows you to experience a variety of different fields, Acute Care could be for you! UPMC Somerset's Acute Care is made up of the Cardiology Medicine Unit & Surgical Acute Care Unit. These positions work 12-hour rotating shifts and rotating weekends & holidays. The Acute Care departments are truly a team! Employees are cross trained to function on both units and will float as needed. UPMC offers a generous sign-on bonus for both graduate & experienced nurses!

Sign-On Bonus Details

• Graduate Nurses

• Full-time/Flex Full-time: $15,000 with a 2-year work commitment

• Part-time: $7,500 with a 2-year work commitment

• Experienced Nurses (1+ years of experience)

• Full-time/Flex Full-time: $20,000 with a 2-year work commitment

• Part-time: $10,000 with a 2-year work commitment

At UPMC, we're passionate about continuing to support your growth throughout your nursing journey. Our Total Rewards package will be discussed at time of offer to ensure you can make the choices that are right for you.

UPMC is committed to investing in nurses like you -financially, personally, and professionally -starting on day one of your career. UPMC is the partner you need to succeed and thrive in your nursing career.

Whether you're a recent Graduate Nurse looking to launch your nursing career, or a seasoned Nurse seeking a change, now is your moment to find your place at UPMC Somerset!

Responsibilities

• Exhibits qualities of professionalism appropriate to the Registered Nurse.

• Assesses patient problems and prioritizes needs. This includes critical thinking that permits differentiation.

• Develop, implement, evaluate, and revise patient care as indicated by the patient's needs to either correct the condition or to reduce potential risk to the patient or write operation.

• Documents in writing and communicates information about the patient status to co-workers, physicians, and ancillary services personnel.

• Reads and interprets policies, procedures, and standards of care to effectively plan and provide patient care.

• Maintains competence in the performance of routine and specialized nursing procedures.

• Demonstrates knowledge and skill necessary to an education appropriate to the age of the patient served.

• Participates in formal and informal staff development activities, both on and off the nursing unit.

• Identifies strategies to improve the flow of work and the cost of providing care.

• Maintains a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that promotes positive customer relations.

• Able to independently transfer a patient from the positions of supine, sitting, and standing in any combination.

• Competent at the independent performance of technical skills and uses equipment safely (without causing risk or harm), efficiently (using the fewest possible resources), and effectively (achieving the desired or expected outcome).

• Non-essential Functions:

• 1. Participates in the development of policies, procedures, standards of care, and quality improvement activities.
• 1. Develops and presents educational sessions to class.
• 1. Participates in the orientation of new personnel.
• 1. Participates in quality workgroups and committees.

• Licensed or eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Graduate nurses must take the State Board Nursing Examination within 60 days of hire

• BCLS (upon hire or within 6mo)

• BSN preferred

• Professional Cert preferred

Licenses and Certifications

• Basic Life Support (BLS)

• Registered Nurse (RN)

• Act 33 with renewal

• Act 34

• Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal

• Telemetry: Certs required (upon hire or within 6 mo) are Basic Cardiac Dysrhythmia & ACLS. NIHSS upon hire.

*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 also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran