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Professional Staff Nurse, CVOR

  • Category: Nursing
  • Location: Pittsburgh, PA
  • Type: Full-Time · Rotating
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Elevate Your Nursing Career in the Heart of Surgical Excellence

ST Health 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 ST Health’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:

  • ST Health 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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ST Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

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$37.00–$48.21 / hr

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Grow with us

Naomi started as a nursing intern. Today she leads a team of 22.

At Pepper Health, careers are designed to compound. 71% of our managers were promoted from within — here is one journey, and yours could look just as ambitious.

A memorable moment for me was standing up the night-shift residency I wished I'd had — and watching the first cohort become charge nurses.

Naomi B.Director of Nursing · 9 years at Pepper

I never had to leave to grow. Every couple of years there was a new chapter waiting, and a manager who actively wanted me to outgrow them.

  1. Nurse Extern

    Learned the floor and shadowed charge nurses on Med-Surg.

  2. New-grad RN, Med-Surg

    Joined the nurse residency and found her footing in acute care.

  3. Charge Nurse

    Ran the board on nights and mentored the new grads behind her.

  4. Nurse Manager

    Led a unit of 14 through a new-tower opening.

  5. Director of Nursing

    Now leads a team of 22 across Med-Surg and the ED.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I self-schedule?

Most inpatient units use self-scheduling in 4-week blocks, with weekend and holiday rotations shared equitably across the team.

Do you pay for certifications?

Specialty certification exams, renewals and review courses are covered — and certified nurses earn a differential.

Is there a nurse residency program?

Yes — a 12-month, accredited residency for new-grad RNs with dedicated preceptors, simulation labs and a cohort that starts together.

What support exists at the bedside?

Clinical resource nurses on every shift, a no-lift equipment program, and unit councils where staff nurses drive practice changes.

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[00:00] Charge nurse: Report starts at seven. We go bed by bed, and nobody leaves a shift with an open question. [00:41] Priya, ICU RN: It's a two-to-one ratio here, so you really get to know your patients and their families. [01:35] Narrator: The Shadyside ICU runs 28 beds with a dedicated charge nurse and clinical resource support around the clock. [02:40] Priya, ICU RN: The hardest days are real, but you're never carrying them alone.

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