Registered Nurse - Perioperative Care Center (Shadyside Hospital)

Full-Time Registered Nurse | Perioperative CareHelp patients feel healthier, prepared, and confident before surgery.UPMC Shadyside, a Magnet-designated hospital, is seeking a Full-Time Registered Nurse to join our Center for Perioperative Care (CPC).

At the UPMC Center for Perioperative Care, we believe better preparation can lead to a better surgical experience and recovery. Our multidisciplinary team works with patients preparing for procedures requiring anesthesia to identify potential risks, optimize their health, and create an individualized plan for surgery and recovery.

Daylight schedule

Anticipated hours: four 10-hour shifts | 6:30am - 5pm

As an RN with the Center for Perioperative Care, you'll help patients prepare for surgery by looking at the whole person, not just their upcoming procedure.

You’ll work alongside physicians and other specialists to:

• Assess patients and identify clinical or other factors that could affect their surgery or recovery
• Help patients understand what to expect and how they can prepare for their procedure
• Coordinate individualized plans of care with physicians and the multidisciplinary team
• Address areas such as nutrition, chronic pain, heart and lung health, medication needs, behavioral health, and other factors that may impact surgical outcomes
• Provide compassionate education and support to patients and their families
• Identify higher-risk patients and help connect them with the resources and care they need before surgery
• Promote safe, high-quality care through evidence-based practice and quality improvement

Bring your nursing expertise to a different kind of care setting

If you're an RN who enjoys patient education, assessment, critical thinking, care coordination, and collaborative care, this could be an exciting opportunity to expand your experience in ambulatory and perioperative nursing.

Join a team that's helping patients be at their best possible health before surgery, so they're better positioned for what comes next.

• Minimum six months experience preferred.
• BSN preferred.
• The individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and/or interact appropriately to the ages of the patients served by his/her assigned unit as specified below.
• They must also demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances

UPMC approved national certification preferred. Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse either in the state where the facility is located or in a state covered by a licensure compact agreement with the state where the facility is located. CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.

Graduate nurses must complete licensure examination within SIX MONTHS of hire or within one year of graduation, whichever comes first.

Though temporary permits are valid for one year from the date of graduation, not one year from issue of permit (or until the results of the examination are known at which time it becomes null and void), UPMC requires that GNs take the licensure examination within 6 months of their start date or they will be terminated or demoted from the GN position, at the discretion of the BU.

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal
• Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran