**Join the compassionate and dedicated team at UPMC’s Northwest Interventional Pain Management as a Professional Staff Nurse, where you’ll be at the forefront of delivering exceptional patient care. As a vital member of our care team, you’ll utilize your expertise to manage and provide holistic nursing care, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and support patients and families throughout their journey. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes while fostering strong professional relationships and driving quality improvement initiatives. If you’re passionate about advancing your nursing career in a dynamic and supportive environment, we invite you to apply today!** This full-time position will work Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 4:30pm. Occasional travel to Clarion and Northwest hospital will be required. **Responsibilities:** + Participate actively in quality improvement initiatives and identify opportunities to enhance care and service. + Build and maintain positive, professional relationships with patients, families, and healthcare team members. + Utilize critical thinking and clinical judgment to manage complex patient care scenarios effectively. + Demonstrate physical stamina and adaptability to handle changing priorities and specialized equipment. + Educate patients, families, and staff using adult learning principles, providing clear guidance for care. + Collaborate with physicians to develop holistic, patient-centered care plans and triage patient needs. + Ensure accurate, comprehensive patient documentation to facilitate effective communication among caregivers. + Support professional development by mentoring staff and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. + Actively engage in shared governance, goal setting, and performance improvement initiatives. + Promote a safe and balanced work environment by modeling accountability, time management, and healthy relationships. + 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. + Minimum six months experience preferred. + BSN preferred. **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 34 *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**