Sr. Professional Staff Nurse

Senior Professional Staff Nurse - Operating Room (Ambulatory Surgery Center)

Lead with Purpose. Practice with Excellence. Enjoy Your Work-Life Balance.

Why This Role Matters

As a Senior Professional Staff Nurse - Operating Room, you'll play a key leadership role in supporting our Ambulatory Surgery Center, a fast-paced, high-energy OR environment where no two days are the same. You'll set the standard for clinical excellence while delivering exceptional, patient-centered surgical care in collaboration with surgeons, anesthesia, and interdisciplinary partners.

Best of all, this role offers an outstanding schedule:

Monday-Friday daylights only - no weekends, no holidays, and no call.

Schedule & Work Environment

+ Monday through Friday | Daylight hours

+ No weekends, no holidays, no on-call

+ Operating Room RN supporting a busy Ambulatory Surgery Center

+ A dynamic OR setting with diverse cases and continuous learning opportunities

What You'll Do

Lead & Inspire

+ Serve as a recognized unit leader through clinical expertise, education, evidence-based practice, or as a specialized resource nurse

+ Role model professional nursing practice and contribute to a positive, high-performing OR culture

+ Provide constructive feedback and actively participate in nursing peer review

+ Lead and collaborate on teams that drive daily excellence and innovation

Deliver Exceptional Surgical Patient Care

+ Apply the nursing process within a Relationship-Based Care framework to create a safe, efficient, and healing surgical environment

+ Partner with patients and families to support individualized, holistic perioperative care

+ Demonstrate advanced assessment, analytical, and critical-thinking skills in the OR setting

+ Communicate clearly and effectively with surgeons, anesthesia, and care team members

+ Maintain comprehensive documentation that supports patient safety, quality, and continuity of care

Advance Quality, Safety & Innovation

+ Identify opportunities to improve clinical quality, patient safety, and workflow in a fast-paced surgical environment

+ Integrate evidence-based practice into daily perioperative nursing care

+ Serve on or lead initiatives that launch innovations in patient care and support a healthy workforce

+ Align practice with professional standards and organizational goals

Mentor & Develop Others

+ Enthusiastically precept and mentor students, graduate nurses, and new team members

+ Identify learning opportunities through clinical and behavioral situations

+ Promote continuous learning through education, research sharing, presentations, and journal clubs

+ Seek feedback and engage in ongoing professional development

Champion a Healthy Workplace

+ Build and strengthen respectful, collaborative relationships within the OR team

+ Demonstrate cultural awareness and actively promote a safe, inclusive, and supportive workplace

+ Maintain work-life balance through effective prioritization and delegation

Why You'll Love This Role

+ Daylight hours, Monday-Friday

+ No weekends, holidays, or call

+ Fast-paced Ambulatory Surgery Center with variety and challenge

+ Leadership opportunities without sacrificing balance

+ A collaborative OR team committed to excellence and patient-centered care

+ Minimum 2 years experience.

+ BSN preferred.

+ Annual completion of 1 professional contribution selected from department, hospital or system goals, and approved by Unit Director as set forth through UPMC's My Nursing Career Ladder OR certification.

Certification not required if Master's in nursing or DNP is held.

If a BSN is held, a Master's degree in a related field may be substituted in lieu of Certification.,

+ 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 2 years experience.

+  BSN preferred.

+ Must obtain a Solid/Strong/Good or higher on a Professional Staff Nurse Performance Evaluation to be promoted to this level. Must maintain a Solid/Strong/Good or higher on annual performance evaluation to maintain status. Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families. Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment.

Exemplary clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem solving abilities required as related to various aspects of patient care. Critical thinking skills necessary to…