Professional Staff Nurse – 6E Brain Injury Rehab

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    "description": "ST Health Mercy is currently hiring a full-time Professional Staff Nurse to support its 6E Brain Injury Rehab unit!  \n \nAt ST Health Mercy’s 18-bed brain injury unit, each patient receives both an individualized and multidisciplinary approach to brain injury care.  We are dedicated to guiding and supporting patients and families through the challenges of brain injury rehabilitation, and we recognize that each person’s needs are different. Our program is the only of its kind in western Pennsylvania.  Our team encompasses the physiatrist who oversees rehabilitation techniques, medical management, and methods of treating and preventing impairment in conjunction with ST Health Mercy.  The patient care team also includes rehabilitation nurses who manage various aspects of the patients care and education; physical therapists who focus on restoring movement and function; occupational therapist who work with the patient on recovering skills needed for everyday living; speech language pathologist who work with communication, swallowing, and cognition; Case Managers who help direct each patients plan of care;  neuropsychologist’s who help treat a patients memory, thinking, and concentration, and amongst some of the specialties that we have to offer our patient’s.  As one of the leading rehabilitation programs in the United States, brain injury patients at the ST Health Rehabilitation Institute have access to state-of-the-art technology and comprehensive services to assist with brain injury recovery.\n \nST Health 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, ST Health is the partner you need to succeed and thrive in your nursing career.\n \n Here’s how we support our nurses:\n\n\nGenerous Sign-On Bonus of up to $20,000.\n\n\n$20,000 sign-on bonus available for nurses with 1 or more years of experience.\n\n\n$15,000 sign-on bonus available for graduate nurses with a 2025/2026 graduation/start date.\n\n\nCandidates hired into a sign-on bonus eligible role will be asked to make a two-year work commitment\n\n\n\n\nST Health’s brand new Monthly Loan Repayment program, exclusively for graduate nurses, offering $20,000* in loan repayment paid over three years (*Eligible flex full-time RN roles to receive prorated amount)\n\n\nUp to five and a half weeks of Paid Time Off annually, plus seven paid holidays each year\n\n\nDedicated 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\n\n\nTuition reimbursement of up to $6,000 per academic year at any accredited institution, available to employees and their dependents (plus discounts for ST Health employees including no cost RN-BSN/MSN options!)\n\n\n \nThe Professional Staff Nurse provides highly competent patient care and treatment while demonstrating empathy and a passion for learning. A role that requires independent judgment, fluent communication, and candid partnership, the Professional Staff Nurse establishes relationships with physicians, other care providers, patients, and patients’ families to achieve desired patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care.\n \nA Professional Staff Nurse and a member of the care delivery team, you will set the standards for the level and quality of nursing care and possess authority and accountability for its provision. At all times, you will exemplify a commitment to the community and to the nursing profession.\n \nTitle and salary will be determined based upon education and nursing experience. \n \nResponsibilities:\n\n\nDevelops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation and commitment to patients and colleagues.\n\n\nSupports the development of students, new staff and colleagues, may serve as a preceptor.\n\n\nCreates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.\n\n\nDemonstrates ST Health Values\n\n\nProvides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to effectively guide them through the episode of care.\n\n\nDisplays daily goals and a plan for care for patients that involves the patient as a partner and considers the individual needs of the patient in a holistic manner.\n\n\nCommunicates with peers and management any safety hazards identified in the workplace.\n\n\nSupports the development of students, new staff and colleagues, may serve as a preceptor.\n\n\nCreates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.\n\n\nIllustrates solid communication skills and can articulate and translate the patient condition to other care providers.\n\n\nIncorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction.\n\n\nHolds accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and the quality of patient care. \n\n\nAdapts to change and displays flexibility with the change process.\n\n\nServes as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance and partnership.\n\n\nTakes personal responsibility in improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service.\n\n\nUtilizes research and evidence-based practice to support improvement in clinical care, identifies research issues or articles related to clinical specialty or areas of interest, discusses opportunities for quality improvement at multidisciplinary rounds, and influences patients' plans of care.\n\n\n\nZero to two years of experience.\n\n\nBSN preferred.\n\n\nThe 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.\n\n\nThey 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 patients status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patients requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.\n\n\nAbility to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families.\n\n\nAbility to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment.\n\n\nGood clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem solving abilities required as related to various aspects of patient care.\n\n\nCritical thinking skills necessary to exercise and to lead others in application of the nursing process.\n\n\nMobility and visual manual dexterity.\n\n\nPhysical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting and positioning of patients.\n\n\n\nLicensure, Certifications, and Clearances:\n\n\nST Health approved national certification preferred.\n\n\nCurrent 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.\n\n\nCPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.\n\n\nGraduate 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), ST Health 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.\n\n\nBasic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)\n\n\nRegistered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)\n\n\nAct 34\n\n\n*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.ST Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran",
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# Professional Staff Nurse - 6E Brain Injury Rehab

- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Employment type: Full-Time
- Category: Nursing
- Shift: Rotating
- Business unit: ST Health Mercy
- Pay: $37.00–$48.21 / hr
- Organization: SFX Demo
- Posted: 2025-12-10T21:50:15.617Z

## Description

**ST Health Mercy is currently hiring a full-time Professional Staff Nurse to support its 6E Brain Injury Rehab unit!**

At ST Health Mercy’s 18-bed brain injury unit, each patient receives both an individualized and multidisciplinary approach to brain injury care. We are dedicated to guiding and supporting patients and families through the challenges of brain injury rehabilitation, and we recognize that each person’s needs are different. Our program is the only of its kind in western Pennsylvania. Our team encompasses the physiatrist who oversees rehabilitation techniques, medical management, and methods of treating and preventing impairment in conjunction with ST Health Mercy. The patient care team also includes rehabilitation nurses who manage various aspects of the patients care and education; physical therapists who focus on restoring movement and function; occupational therapist who work with the patient on recovering skills needed for everyday living; speech language pathologist who work with communication, swallowing, and cognition; Case Managers who help direct each patients plan of care; neuropsychologist’s who help treat a patients memory, thinking, and concentration, and amongst some of the specialties that we have to offer our patient’s. As one of the leading rehabilitation programs in the United States, brain injury patients at the ST Health Rehabilitation Institute have access to state-of-the-art technology and comprehensive services to assist with brain injury recovery.
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