Professional Staff Nurse; RN; Inpatient Rehab - UPMC Carlisle

Professional Staff Nurse (RN) – Inpatient Rehab Unit (UPMC Carlisle)

Ready to grow your nursing career while making a meaningful difference every day?

UPMC Carlisle is looking for a Professional Staff Nurse for the 3rdfloor Inpatient Rehab unit!

Whether you’re a new graduate beginning your nursing career or an experienced RN looking for a new challenge, inpatient rehabilitation offers the opportunity to build your clinical skills, expand your hospital experience, and make a lasting impact on your patients’ recovery.

Join a collaborative hospital-based rehabilitation team where you’ll care for patients with a variety of medical and functional needs while helping them work toward greater independence and a successful return home.

Position Detail:

• Full-time, 36 hours per week
• Day/Night Rotating Shift
• Every 3rd weekend (Friday and Saturday), every other holiday
• 20-bed unit

Unit Highlights:

Make a difference you can see while building meaningful patient relationships. Rehabilitation patients typically spend more time on the unit, allowing you to truly get to know them, understand what matters most to them, and support their individual goals as they regain strength, mobility, independence, and confidence. Celebrate their progress and be part of their journey from admission through discharge.

Strengthen your hospital nursing skills and grow professionally in a supportive environment. Inpatient rehabilitation provides new graduate nurses with a strong foundation in assessment, medication administration, patient education, care coordination, clinical decision-making, and caring for patients with complex medical needs. Experienced nurses can broaden their knowledge and continue developing their clinical expertise. Whether you’re beginning your nursing career or bringing years of experience, you’ll have opportunities to learn, grow, and make a meaningful impact while seeing your patients progress.

Be part of a true interdisciplinary team. Collaborate every day with physical, occupational, and speech therapy, physicians, case management, and other hospital services. Together, you’ll develop a plan of care focused on helping each patient achieve their highest level of independence.

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 $20,000 (
  * Amount and eligibility based on type of nursing role and candidate experience)
• UPMC's brand new Monthly Loan Repayment program, exclusively for  nursing graduates, offering $20,000
  * in loan repayment over 3 years (
  * Eligible flex full-time RN roles to receive 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!)

Title and starting pay rate of this position may vary based on years of experience.

Purpose:
The Professional Staff Nurse is a Registered Nurse and a member of the care delivery team. The Professional Staff Nurse is responsible to set the standards for the level and quality of care. The Professional Staff Nurse has responsibility, authority and accountability for the provision of nursing care. The Professional Staff…