Clinician, ICU

Join our Intensive Care team at UPMC Western Maryland as a Clinician or Clinician Fellow! If you are an RN with critical care experience looking to take the next step in your career, make sure to take a look at the details below.

In this role, you’ll be a key player in enhancing nursing practice and patient care. You'll combine your advanced clinical skills with meaningful, life-saving work by making a direct impact during critical moments. You'll work closely with a skilled team while continuously learning and growing, while helping your team to learn and grow as well.

This is a full-time, dayshift position that doesn't work holidays or weekends. Schedule will consist of one week of three 12 hour shifts in staffing, and four 10 hour shifts in office the following week. The final candidate will be placed into the appropriate rate and title based on experience and education.

Qualified candidates may be eligible for a $15,000 sign on bonus with a two year commitment!

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a leader in clinical nursing practice, identifying patient and staff-focused opportunities for improvement and leading the change process.
• Identify, educate, and support the psychological and learning needs of staff during change and transition.
• Practice participatory leadership and be an active member of shared leadership at the unit, facility, or system level.
• Assume formal leadership responsibilities for quality improvement, evidence-based practice, GN or new hire onboarding.
• Assist the Unit/Department Leader with the peer review process.
• Apply nursing knowledge and skills within the framework of Relationship-Based Care to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients and families.
• Practice solid verbal and written communication skills, articulating and translating patient conditions to other care providers and negotiating recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices.
• Ensure comprehensive patient documentation to promote communication between caregivers.
• Demonstrate critical thinking in analyzing clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual issues for patient care within an episode of care.
• Incorporate national professional organization goals and health system goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction in daily work.
• Create a caring and compassionate patient-focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.
• Disseminate new knowledge and innovations through presentations, posters, and publications.
• Demonstrate knowledge of performance improvement tools and techniques, continuously improving the quality of care and work environment outcomes.
• Share learning from improvements with other units and/or spread across the business unit or system.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships internally and externally by building teams and relationships through mentoring and positive communication.
• Coach colleagues on cultural diversity and address workplace horizontal violence and impairment.
• Demonstrate accountability to self and others for safe work hours, time management, and healthy lifestyles.
• Show interest in the development of others, positively impacting the lives of patients/families, peers, and healthcare team members through mentoring, education, and knowledge sharing.
• Actively participate as a preceptor for student nurses, nurse interns, graduate and experienced nurses, and assist with the development of new preceptors.
• Mentor and role model continuous learning through formal education and the development of others.
• Seek opportunities to share expertise with other healthcare team members within and beyond the clinical unit/department.