AirCare 4 - Assistant Manager- (Nursing Credentials: Utilize this posting if you have Nursing Credentials & Experience)

This posting for UIHC AirCare Assistant Manager is for candidates with Nursing credentials and experience.  If you have Paramedic experience, please view requisition number 26001236

The Assistant Nurse Manager leads and manages direct care nursing functions of the AirCare team to assure that health services, medical care, medical/health professions education, and evidence-based practice research programs are delivered effectively and efficiently.

Positions in this job family will have direct patient care responsibilities.  Efforts will focus on planning, organizing, directing, evaluating, and improving health care operations, clinical and education programs of clinical departments

AirCare 4 supports AirCare’s high level of compassionate, emergency, and critical care services to referring hospitals, public safety agencies and the community.  AirCare maintains a highly experienced medical staff, incorporating the latest technology in aviation, medical equipment, pharmacology, and engaging in regular continuing education.  AirCare can rapidly and safely transport high risk and complex patients.

As one of the first of 15 programs in the nation, AirCare was the state's first air ambulance in 1979, and the 11th in the nation. Total flight volume for the entire program includes scene responses and inter-facility transports. In 2014, AirCare became the first air medical service based in Iowa to be CAMTS accredited. The University of Iowa transports critically ill neonatal and pediatric patients using AirCare as well as our MobileCare ground transport vehicles. These special patients are cared for by our Neonatal/Pediatric Transport Team.

Our helicopters and specialty transport ground ambulances rapidly transport critically ill and severely injured patients, delivering medical care en route with an emphasis on support of high-risk patient populations, including multi-system trauma victims, neonates, pediatric patients, and patients suffering from time-sensitive or complex medical conditions.

UI Health Care is seeking a welcoming, highly skilled and collaborative workforce to be a part of the first team for this superb new AirCare base, and to help further our mission of: Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Department of Emergency Medicine is seeking a full time AirCare Assistant Manager for the AirCare program's AC 4 base to assess patients' nursing care needs, evaluate effectiveness of care provided, and integrate nursing theory and research into clinical practice.

All flights are operated by Air Methods Corporation.

Operations, Standards of Care, Regulatory Compliance, Quality and Patient Satisfaction

• Identify trends and determine QA priorities. Develop quality standards.
• Work with the Nurse Manager to appropriately allocate resources to meet quality and productivity expectation.
• Collaborate with the Nurse Manager to develop, implement and monitor plan to enhance patient satisfaction.
• Formulate, review, and revise policies and other standards of professional practice essential for optimum delivery of patient service; assures compliance with established standards of care (practice and performance). 
• Maintain knowledge of and ability to manage effective and smooth operations within units by utilizing various management principles and techniques.
• Understand the issues related to the decision-making process; analyze situations fully and accurately and reach productive decisions.
• As needed ability to work outside of standard business hours to ensure all clinical and/or operational needs can be met
• Provides managerial and clinical lead