ASC OR Staff Nurse - Gynecology Team - 75%

Sign-on incentive:  Qualified candidates with a minimum of two years experience are eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $12,500.  Current UI employees are not eligible.

Position schedule: 75% - Three 10-hour shifts per week, scheduled 0645-1715, rotating days off.  On-Call rotation for nights and weekends.  Holiday rotation.

The University of Iowa Heath Care Perioperative department is looking for Staff Nurse to join the Operating Room, specifically for our Gynecology Team. These nurses will assist the Nursing team in providing patient care under the direct supervision of the Nurse Manager.  The Operating area at Univeristy of Iowa Health Care features 42 operating rooms dedicated to adult surgical specialties and operates 24/7.  Intra-operative services are organized into 7 teams staffed by Registered Nurses and Surgical Technologists.

Characteristic Duties of our Staff Nurses include but are not limited to:

• Applies nursing theory to the assessment diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of patient responses to health and illness.
• Assesses patient health care preferences and expectations.
• Collaboratively coordinates the continuum of care across settings.
• Develops patient care plan based on patient condition, age, and psychological, education 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, documemts/reports, interventions and patient/family response.
• Collaborates and integrates contributions of patients and families into multidisciplinary patient care plan.
• Develops, coordinates and implements transfer/discharge planning throughout espisode of care.
• Implements nursing interventions according to department, division, and/or unit policies, procedures, and protocols to maintain safe environment for patients, visitors, and staff.
• Follows universal precaution.

Become one of Iowa’s best Nurses. Join the Nursing team at Iowa’s only comprehensive academic medical center, University of Iowa Health Care.  As a five-time winner of the Magnet designation for excellence in nursing services by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Recognition Program®, UI Health Care offers you the opportunity to advance your nursing skills.  Work in an environment where your co-workers are committed to excellence, education, and innovation.  We are dedicated to providing evidence based, family-centered care while working and learning with a full interdisciplinary team.

Percent of Time:  75%  

Schedule:  Three 10-hour shifts per weekshift  scheduled 0645-1715, rotating days off.  On-call rotation for nights and weekends, Holiday rotation.

Salary:  Shift differentials are further detailed in the UI Health Care SNAHP manual.

SEIU Pay Plan: https://hr.uiowa.edu/pay/pay-plans/seiu-pay-plan

Benefits Highlights:

• Regular salaried position located in Iowa City, Iowa
• Fringe benefit package including paid vacation; sick leave; health, dental, life and disability insurance options; and generous employer contributions into retirement plans.  

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