What are the responsibilities and job description for the Professional Staff Nurse - Dialysis position at UPMC?
UPMC Hamot – Professional Staff Nurse, Dialysis (Full-Time)
Schedule: Three 12‑hour shifts | Monday–Saturday, 5:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
On-Call: Rotating, including Sundays
Experience: 1 year of nursing experience highly preferred
UPMC Hamot is seeking a dedicated Full‑time Professional Staff Nurse to join our Dialysis team. As a Magnet® designated organization, we are committed to excellence in patient care, professional development, and continuous improvement—making this an ideal environment to grow your nursing career.
At UPMC, we’re passionate about fostering your development throughout your nursing journey. Our robust nursing career ladder supports advancement from Professional Staff Nurse to Senior Nurse, Expert Nurse, and beyond. Final job title and compensation will be determined based on your education and experience.
We take pride in offering a competitive Total Rewards package, which will be reviewed in detail at the time of offer to ensure you can make informed decisions aligned with your personal and professional goals.
How UPMC Supports Your Nursing Career
Financial, personal, and professional investment starts on day one:
Up to $15,000 Sign-On Bonus for experienced nurses
(Bonus amount and eligibility vary based on role and experience.)
- Up to 5.5 weeks of PTO annually, plus seven paid holidays
- Dedicated career ladders to recognize experience, encourage advancement, and support higher education
- Tuition reimbursement up to $6,000/year for employees and dependents at any accredited institution
– Plus additional educational discounts, including no-cost RN–BSN/MSN options for UPMC employees
About the Role
The Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse and integral member of the care delivery team. This role is responsible for:
- Setting and upholding the standards of high-quality nursing care
- Exercising independent clinical judgment in delivering patient care
- Managing care for a defined group of patients and families
- Collaborating and communicating effectively with physicians, interdisciplinary staff, patients, and families
- Demonstrating leadership, teamwork, and a strong commitment to both the nursing profession and the 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.