Staff Nurse, Vascular Surgery - UI Heart and Vascular Center

No Nights, Weekends or Holidays!

As a Vascular Staff Nurse, you'll play a vital role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to cardiovascular patients across our main campus, Iowa River Landing, and outreach sites. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with patients over the long term, building meaningful relationships while supporting their recovery and wellness journeys. The Heart and Vascular Center offers outpatient nurses a unique experience to continue utilizing their inpatient skills like IV placement, wound care, suture/staple removal, and blood draws.

Our clinic operates Monday-Friday and is closed nights weekends, and holidays! Hours are flexible with 8 and 10 hour shifts available; schedules can be discussed through the hiring process.

Please take a minute to review our webpages:
Iowa Health Care Vascular Surgery:  https://uihc.org/services/vascular-surgery
Iowa Health Care HVC:  https://uihc.org/services/heart-and-vascular-services

We are the best heart hospital in Iowa

UI Heart & Vascular Center is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the best hospital in the state for cardiology and heart surgery patient care. The best hospitals nationally received this rating based on patient outcomes, number of high-risk patients seen, patient experience, advanced clinical technologies, and more.

Being a Nurse in the Heart and Vascular Center

Position Responsibilities

• Function as clinical staff nurse within the UI Heart and Vascular (HVC) outpatient/ambulatory team.

• Responsible for patient intake and vital sign monitoring, current medications and allergies charting, suture removal, wound dressings, etc.

• Collaborate with other services to schedule and coordinate additional testing for diagnosis or medical clearance.

• Apply nursing theory to the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of patient responses to health and illness.

• Assess patient health care preferences and expectations.

• Develop patient care plan based on patient condition, age, and psychological, educational, and socioeconomic conditions that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.

• Implement patient care plan according to patient priorities, which includes interventions identified through nursing diagnoses. Document/report interventions and patient/family response.

• Collaborate and integrate contributions of patients and families into multidisciplinary patient care plan.

• Develop, coordinate and implement transfer/discharge planning throughout episode of care.

• Implement nursing interventions according to department, division, and/or unit policies, procedures, and protocols to maintain safe environment for patients, visitors and staff. Follows universal precautions.

• Maintain skills/competency related to special equipment, medications, and procedures common to the patient population of the unit/division.

• Serve as clinical preceptor to new nursing and/or agency staff as directed by the Nursing Manager, Assistant Nurse Manager or