Staff Nurse - 3Center Inpatient Family Medicine - 60% Nights (1900-0730) - Downtown Campus

Qualified candidates are eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $10,000 (based on years of experience)

A career with University of Iowa Health Care is more than a job. Here, you’re part of something greater, something bigger. Our downtown campus is a 194-bed hospital (located at 500 E Market Street, Iowa City) providing a community-based model of care while directly connected to the expertise, technology, collaboration, and support of our entire health system. Join the team at our downtown campus. You’ll find meaning and purpose knowing that your work helps make all of Iowa better.

Position Summary:

Assess patients' nursing care needs, evaluate effectiveness of care provided, and integrate nursing theory and research into clinical practice.  Provide leadership to members of the nursing team in order to maintain patient care standards. 

Position Responsibilities:

• Incorporates scientific, behavioral and humanistic principles for application to clinical practice.
• Utilizes, adheres and supports departmental standards and practice guidelines. 
• 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, educational, and socioeconomic conditions that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.  
• Implements patient care plan according to patient priorities, which includes interventions identified through nursing diagnoses.  Documents/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 episode 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 precautions.  
• Implements emergency care procedures in potential or actual emergencies according to departmental policies, procedures and protocols.  
• Maintains skills/competency related to special equipment, medications, and procedures common to the patient population of the unit/division.  
• Evaluates patient's response to multidisciplinary care.  
• Uses evaluation data to revise and implement change.  
• Assumes account