Professional Staff Nurse, CVOR

Start Strong : Offering a $15,000 sign-on bonus for eligible hires!

Elevate Your Nursing Career in the Heart of Surgical Excellence

UPMC Presbyterian’s Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR) is hiring a full-time Staff Nurse to join our world-class surgical team! If you're looking to expand your clinical expertise with Level I trauma and transplant experience in one of the region’s most advanced operating rooms — this is your next career move.

Schedule Highlights :

Primarily daylight hours with one evening shift per week

High on-call need including weekdays, overnights, weekends, and holidays

Additional Perks :

Enjoy a quarterly cardiac incentive — a financial reward recognizing your contribution to this highly specialized team. Your expertise matters, and we show it.

This role is a key step in our robust nursing career ladder — offering ongoing opportunities for advancement, leadership, and skill development. You’ll work with top surgeons and interdisciplinary teams in high-acuity cardiac, transplant, and trauma cases, making an impact where it truly counts.

What You’ll Do :

Apply the nursing process within the Relationship-Based Care model to deliver personalized, holistic care

Collaborate with the entire care team, using solid communication and critical thinking to support excellent patient outcomes

Serve as a mentor, educator, and resource to students, new staff, and fellow nurses

Participate in shared governance, quality improvement projects, and clinical innovation

Maintain comprehensive documentation that promotes safe, efficient care coordination

Scrub into cases as part of your role

Create healing environments by building strong relationships with patients, families, and colleagues

Demonstrate leadership through flexibility, accountability, and a passion for continuous learning

Final title and salary are based on your experience and education, aligned with UPMC’s nursing career ladder.

No experience required.

Mobility and visual manual dexterity. Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting and positioning of patients.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances :

UPMC approved national certification preferred.

Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)

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.

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UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran