What are the responsibilities and job description for the Professional Staff Nurse - Dialysis position at UPMC?
Full-Time Professional Staff Nurse – Dialysis | UPMC Hamot
Schedule: Three 12-hour shifts per week, scheduled Monday through Saturday between 5:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Shared on-call responsibility for evenings and weekends.
Join a close-knit, highly collaborative team dedicated to delivering exceptional dialysis care to our patients. Our nurses have the unique opportunity to care for patients multiple times throughout their hospital admission, allowing them to build meaningful relationships with patients and families while making a lasting impact on their care experience.
1 year of nursing experience highly preferred.
About the Unit
The Dialysis Department provides both acute and chronic inpatient dialysis services, as well as plasmapheresis treatments. Team members occasionally travel to inpatient specialty areas, including the ICU and Intermediate Unit, to provide bedside dialysis care. Nurses work closely with outpatient dialysis centers and physicians to ensure continuity of care and positive patient outcomes throughout the patient's treatment journey.
This role offers the opportunity to:
- Provide acute and chronic inpatient dialysis treatments
- Perform plasmapheresis procedures
Deliver dialysis services in critical care settings, including the ICU and Intermediate Unit
- Coordinate care with outpatient dialysis centers to support seamless transitions and continuity of care
- Develop strong relationships with patients and families through ongoing treatment interactions
Grow Your Nursing Career at UPMC
At UPMC, we're committed to supporting your growth throughout every stage of your nursing career. We offer a robust nursing career ladder designed to recognize your experience, education, and professional contributions.
The final job title and compensation will be determined based on individual qualifications, experience, and candidate preference. Any required certifications associated with the selected position level will be supported with an appropriate timeframe for completion.
The minimum starting rate for a non-BSN Professional Staff Nurse is $36.50 per hour.
UPMC is committed to investing in nurses financially, personally, and professionally from day one. Whether you're looking to advance your clinical expertise, pursue higher education, or grow into leadership opportunities, UPMC provides the resources and support to help you succeed.
Here's How We Support Our Nurses
- Generous sign-on bonus for experienced nurses of up to $15,000 (amount and eligibility based on role and experience)
- Up to five and a half weeks of Paid Time Off annually, plus seven paid holidays
- Dedicated nursing career ladders that reward experience, advanced education, and professional contributions
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $6,000 per academic year for employees and eligible dependents
- Educational discounts and no-cost RN-to-BSN/MSN options through participating programs
- Comprehensive Total Rewards package, including medical, dental, vision, retirement, and wellness benefits
Title and salary will be determined based upon education and nursing experience.
About the Role
The Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse and a member of the care delivery team. The Professional Staff Nurse is responsible for setting the standards for the level and quality of care provided to patients. This role has responsibility, authority, and accountability for the provision of nursing care and manages patient care activities through the application of independent judgment, communication, and collaboration with interdisciplinary team members.
The Professional Staff Nurse establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with physicians, healthcare providers, patients, and families to achieve desired patient outcomes across the continuum of care while demonstrating leadership, partnership, and a commitment to the nursing profession and community.
Responsibilities:
- Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation and commitment to patients and colleagues.
- Demonstrates an understanding of cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships.
- Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life.
- Models safe work hours, time management and healthy lifestyle.
- Communicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace.
- Demonstrates knowledge of adult learning principles (and/or teaching children if applicable) and applies in teaching of patients, families, students and new staff. Provides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to effectively guide them through the episode of care as well as transition to another level of care and/or home.
- Supports the development of students, new staff and colleagues, may serve as a preceptor.
- Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.
- Applies the nursing process within the framework of Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment.
- Formulates daily 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.
- Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological and spiritual issues for the patient care within an episode of care.
- Practices solid communication skills and is able to articulate and translate the patient's condition to other care providers and to negotiate and make recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices.
- 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.
- Demonstrates accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and the quality of patient care.
- 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.
- Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance and partnership.
- Participates in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment.
- Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility with the change process.
- Actively participates in department or unit-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.
- 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, discusses opportunities for quality improvement at multidisciplinary rounds, and influences patients' plans of care.
Salary : $1,000 - $1,000,000