Professional Staff Nurse - L&D - Lititz New

Professional Staff Nurse – Labor & Delivery (Full-Time, Nights)

UPMC Lititz is hiring an experienced Professional Staff Nurse for our Labor & Delivery unit, full-time on nights (7 p.m.–7 a.m.). This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while working with a skilled, supportive team dedicated to caring for families at a pivotal time in their lives. Prior nursing experience is required.

UPMC invests in nurses from day one—financially, personally, and professionally. Whether you’re managing student loans or planning your next career step, UPMC is committed to helping you succeed. Here’s how we support our nurses:

• Generous sign-on bonus of up to $15,000 (amount and eligibility based on role and experience)
• Monthly Loan Repayment Program for 2025–2026 nursing graduates, offering $20,000 over three years (eligible flex full-time RN roles receive a prorated amount)
• Up to 5.5 weeks of paid time off annually, plus seven paid holidays
• Dedicated career ladders, including a new nursing career ladder introduced this year, rewarding experience and advanced education
• Tuition reimbursement up to $6,000 per academic year at any accredited institution for employees and dependents—plus exclusive UPMC discounts, including no-cost RN-BSN/MSN options
• Applicants will be placed in the appropriate job title and salary within the nursing career ladder based on experience and education.
  
  

Join a team that values excellence, empathy, and collaboration—where every night offers the chance to make a lasting impact. Apply today and grow your nursing career with UPMC Lititz.

Responsibilities:

• Builds and maintains positive working relationships through accountability, professionalism, cultural awareness, and mutual respect.
• Promotes a safe and healthy work environment by modeling work–life balance, effective time management, and reporting safety concerns.
• Educates patients, families, students, and staff using adult learning principles to support care transitions and positive outcomes.
• Supports the growth of students and colleagues, may serve as a preceptor, and actively seeks feedback to improve practice.
• Applies the nursing process and Relationship-Based Care to deliver holistic, patient-centered care.
• Demonstrates strong critical thinking to address clinical, psychosocial, safety, and spiritual patient needs.
• Communicates effectively with patients and interdisciplinary teams while maintaining accurate, comprehensive documentation.
• Engages in professional development, shared governance, and team collaboration to improve care and the practice environment.
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives, adapts effectively to change, and utilizes evidence-based practice to enhance patient safety, quality, and satisfaction.
• Zero to two years of experience.
• BSN preferred.
• 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.
• 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.

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)
• Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal
• 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