Professional Staff Nurse, OR (Full-time Flex) UPMC West Shore

UPMC is committed to investing in nurses like you –financially, personally, and professionally –starting on day one of your career. From tackling student loans to advancing your career later in life, UPMC is the partner you need to succeed and thrive in your nursing career. Here’s how we support our nurses:

• Generous Sign-On Bonus of up to $15,000* (*Amount and eligibility based on type of nursing role and candidate experience)

• UPMC’s Monthly Loan Repayment Program, exclusively for 2026 nursing graduates, offering $20,000* in loan repayment paid over three years (*Eligible flex full-time RN roles to receive a prorated amount)

• Up to five and a half weeks of Paid Time Off annually, plus seven paid holidays each year

• Dedicated career ladders, including a brand-new nursing career ladder added just this year, allowing you to achieve your highest potential while rewarding you for your experience and advanced education.

• Tuition reimbursement of up to $6,000 per academic year at any accredited institution, available to employees and their dependents (plus discounts for UPMC employees including no cost RN-BSN/MSN options!)
   

Join our fast-paced Hybrid OR team, where no two days or cases are alike. In this role, you will prepare the operating room for procedures, provide focused and meaningful patient care, complete procedure-specific assessments, and support surgeries by circulating and/or scrubbing. You will collaborate closely with anesthesia, perianesthesia, imaging, laboratory, and other multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, high-quality, and efficient care. This position primarily supports percutaneous and open vascular procedures in a dynamic surgical environment.

Responsibilities: 

• Patient assessment.

• Documentation.

• Utilization of preference cards, knowledge, and experience to learn/know procedures and surgeon preferences to anticipate the needs of the patient and surgical team (in the scrub role and circulator role).

• Translate learned skills to other facets of practice (e.g., using knowledge of how to scrub a procedure to better anticipate the needs of the team).

• Performs scrub role (requirement for RNs hired on or after July 1, 2023).
• *Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.*Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Rotating shifts – predominantly day shift (7am-3:30pm) but will rotate to evening shift (1pm-9:30pm or 3pm-11:30pm) and night shift (9pm-7:30am or 11pm-7:30am); weekends and holidays; call; frequency and more specifics will be discussed during the interview