Registered Nurse (RN) - Admissions Team

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Join UPMC St. Margaret's Admission Team!

Are you an experienced Registered Nurse looking for an opportunity to utilize your clinical expertise while stepping away from a traditional bedside assignment model? UPMC St. Margaret is seeking a Full-Time RN to join our Admissions Team. This unique role offers the opportunity to collaborate closely with physicians, nursing staff, and interdisciplinary teams while supporting patient admissions, care transitions, and specialized neurology services throughout the hospital.

Working Monday through Friday from 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM, this position combines autonomy, flexibility, and meaningful patient interaction without carrying a traditional patient assignment.

Responsibilities include supporting Tele Neurology consults, performing neurological assessments, facilitating communication between providers, completing admission assessments and medication reconciliation, and assisting with patient care processes across the hospital. Join a department known for its exceptional teamwork, staff longevity, and supportive environment where nurses can continue making a direct impact on patient care while expanding their clinical knowledge and professional growth.

Preferred Qualifications:

NIHSS certification is preferred but not required. Candidates with a passion for neuroscience, collaboration, and patient-centered care are encouraged to apply.

_This position is posted as a Professional Staff Nurse, which is a valued step in UPMC's Nursing Career Ladder. The final candidate will be placed in the appropriate title and salary based on experience and education_ .

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 Nurse manages and provides patient care activities for a group of patients and their families through the application of independent judgment, communication and collaboration with all team members.

The role of the Professional Staff Nurse encompasses leadership, partnership, collaboration and supervision. The Professional Staff Nurse establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with physicians, other health care providers, patients and their families, to achieve desired patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care. The Professional Staff Nurse demonstrates a commitment to the community and to the nursing profession.

Responsibilities:

+ Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation and commitment to patients and colleagues. Demonstrates an understanding of cultural differences and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships. Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life. Models safe work hours, time management and healthy lifestyle. Communicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace.

+ Demonstrates knowledge of adult learning principles (and/or teaching children if applicable) and applies in teaching of patients, families, students and new staff. Provides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to effectively guide them through the episode of care as well as transition to another level of care and/or home. Supports the development of students, new staff and colleagues, may serve as a preceptor.

Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.

+ Applies the nursing process within the framework of Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment. Formulates daily goals and a plan of care for patients that involves the patient as partner and considers the individual needs of the patient in a holistic manner. Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological and spiritual issues for the patient care within an episode of care.

Practices solid communication skills and is able to articulate and translate the patient's condition to other care providers and to negotiate and make recommendations for changes in patient care and unit practices. Patient documentation is comprehensive and promotes communication between caregivers. Incorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality and satisfaction.

Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families and colleagues.

+ Demonstrates accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and the quality of patient care. Actively participates in unit-based shared…