Start Your Nursing Career with Confidence at UPMC

At UPMC, we believe in empowering the next generation of nurses. As a Graduate Nurse, you’ll be welcomed into a supportive, innovative, and patient-centered environment where your growth is our priority. Whether you’re certain of your specialty or still exploring, UPMC offers the flexibility and resources to help you thrive from day one.

Why Choose UPMC?

• My Residency Program: A comprehensive, system-wide nurse residency designed to ease your transition from student to professional nurse. Includes clinical skill-building, mentorship, and peer support.
• Sign-On Bonus: Up to $15,000 for eligible graduate nurses.
• Loan Repayment Incentive: Up to $20,000 over three years for qualifying roles.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Up to $6,000/year for continued education.
• Career Growth: Access to UPMC’s My Nursing Career Ladder for self-directed advancement and salary growth.
• Supportive Culture: Join a cohort of peers, engage in interprofessional collaboration, and receive guidance from experienced preceptors.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver compassionate, evidence-based care to patients in a variety of clinical settings.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement patient care plans.
• Participate in ongoing education and training through UPMC’s residency and orientation programs.
• Embrace opportunities for leadership, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Our RNs work a rotating schedule that include 12-hour shifts, to ensure 24/7 coverage on the floor.

About the Unit: 

• 4 North Pavilion Progressive Care Unit consists of 30 private beds, all of which have in-room cardiac monitoring capabilities.
• Our nurses skillfully provide care to a varied patient population that requires a higher level of care than what is able to be provided on the general medicine units, but who are of a lesser acuity than what would be required for admission into the intensive care areas.
• Our population of patients have diagnoses which consist of both cardiac and more complex patient care needs.  Our patients often undergo procedures such as cardiac catheterization with and without stent placement, pacemaker and defibrillator insertions, A-Fib and other ablations, as well as patients admitted for the Watchman procedure.  We treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias, either by cardiac drips such as Cardizem or Amiodarone, or orally with Tikosyn or Sotalol therapy. Our CHF patients may require IV or oral Lasix therapy or treatment with other medications such as a Milrinone drip.
• Patients with higher medical needs may require oxygen via heated High-Flow, EEG monitoring, IV insulin infusions, or simply more frequent monitoring for a variety of medically indicated conditions. 
• Our new nurses receive enhanced, self-paced computer based modules and interactive educational opportunities via the AACN’s ECCO program (Essentials of Critical Care Orientation) which we have adapted to the Progressive Care patient population to provide you with increased knowledge about the patients you will care for on our unit, as well as helping you to transition your role from nursing student to a fully-functioning Registered Nurse!

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.

Less than 1 year away from graduating nursing school

 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. Good clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem solving abilities required as related to various aspects of patient care. Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and to lead others in application of the nursing process. Mobility and visual manual dexterity. Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting and positioning of patients.

***UPMC offers a variety of flexible options in addition to traditional rotating/flexible shifts, special programs exist to work primarily night shifts or weekend shifts with a premium pay differential. Employees hired as or who choose to transition into one of these programs at a later time must have at least 6 months of nursing experience to qualify and may be required to complete any necessary orientation during regular business hours. If you are interested in these programs, please alert your recruiter when you are contacted for an interview.***

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.

NIHSS required within 6 Months from Hire/Transfer into department/ role

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIH)
• 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