The Mom Baby Unit at Hamot is seeking a Senior Professional Staff Nurse II to join our team!
Position Details
- Status: Full-time
- Schedule: Rotating days and nights, including rotating holidays
- Availability: Must be available for both day and night shifts
- Experience Requirement: Minimum of 3 years of RN experience required
Title and starting pay rate will be determined based on years of experience.
Position Purpose
The Senior Professional Staff Nurse II is a Registered Nurse and a key member of the care delivery team, responsible for advancing practice through quality improvement and evidence-based care. This role sets standards for the level and quality of nursing care and maintains responsibility, authority, and accountability for patient outcomes.
The Senior Professional Staff Nurse II provides and manages care for a group of patients and families by applying independent judgment, effective communication, and collaboration with interdisciplinary team members. This role encompasses leadership, partnership, collaboration, and supervision, while fostering strong relationships with physicians, care providers, patients, and families across the continuum of care. The Sr. PSN II demonstrates a commitment to the community, the profession of nursing, and professional excellence.
Key ResponsibilitiesQuality & Practice Improvement
- Identifies opportunities to improve clinical quality and the work environment.
- Integrates evidence-based practice into daily nursing care.
- Participates in or leads teams that promote innovation in patient care and workforce well-being.
Professional Leadership & Shared Governance
- Serves as a role model and recognized unit leader through clinical expertise, teaching, specialty practice, or evidence-based initiatives.
- Provides timely, constructive feedback and participates in the nursing peer review process.
- Promotes changes that enhance patient care quality and the unit environment.
- Actively participates in shared governance at the unit level and serves on hospital-wide councils.
- Demonstrates advanced clinical assessment, analytical skills, and leadership within the framework of Relationship-Based Care.
Education, Precepting & Professional Development
- Demonstrates a strong commitment to developing others by precepting students, graduate nurses, and new team members.
- Analyzes clinical and interpersonal situations to identify learning opportunities.
- Seeks and incorporates feedback to support continuous professional growth.
- Promotes ongoing education by sharing research, professional resources, unit presentations, and participation in journal clubs.
Patient-Centered Care
- Applies the nursing process within the framework of Relationship-Based Care to create a healing environment.
- Develops daily goals and individualized plans of care in partnership with patients and families.
- Uses effective communication to translate patient conditions to care team members and advocate for needed changes.
- Maintains comprehensive, accurate documentation to support continuity of care.
- Demonstrates critical thinking to address clinical, safety, psychosocial, and spiritual patient needs.
- Incorporates professional, business-unit, and health system goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction.
- Builds compassionate, healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.
Healthy Workplace & Professional Conduct
- Builds and repairs collegial relationships to foster a positive, respectful work environment.
- Demonstrates cultural awareness and addresses horizontal violence or impairment appropriately.
- Maintains work-life balance through effective prioritization and delegation.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years of Registered Nurse experience required.
- BSN preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to provide age-appropriate care to the patient populations served, including:
- Knowledge of growth and development principles across the lifespan.
- Ability to assess, interpret, and respond to patient data based on age-specific needs in accordance with department policies and procedures.
- Must successfully complete annual professional contributions aligned with department, hospital, or system goals, as approved by the Unit Director.
- Must obtain a Solid/Strong/Good or higher rating on a Professional Staff Nurse Performance Evaluation for promotion to this level and maintain a Solid/Strong/Good or higher rating annually to retain status.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, leaders, physicians, advanced practice providers, ancillary staff, other departments, and patients/families.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex healthcare environment while managing multiple and changing priorities.
- Exemplary clinical judgment with strong critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to lead and support others in the application of the nursing process.
- Physical requirements include mobility, visual/manual dexterity, and physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients.
Certification & Professional Development Requirements
Annual completion of a professional contribution approved by the Unit Director AND one of the following:
- Obtain and maintain a UPMC-approved nursing certification within 1 year of hire/transfer
OR - Certification is not required if a Master’s degree in Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) is held.
- If a BSN is held, a Master’s degree in a related field may be substituted in lieu of certification.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances
- Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state where the facility is located OR a multistate license issued by a participating Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) state.
- Employees working under an out-of-state NLC license who change residency to the facility’s state must apply for state licensure within 60 days.
- CPR/BLS certification in accordance with American Heart Association (AHA) standards, including both didactic and skills demonstration, within 30 days of hire.
- My Nursing Career–approved certification, if applicable.
- Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance (with renewal)
- Act 34 Criminal Clearance (with renewal)
- Act 73 FBI Clearance (with renewal)
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veteran.
