ASC Nurse Clinician 100%25

University of Iowa•Iowa City, IA

17h•Onsite

About The Position

The University of Iowa Health Care department of Ambulatory Surgery Center is seeking a 100% Nurse Clinician to function as a clinical nurse expert and care coordinator for a specific patient population interfacing with administrative, clinical nursing staff, physicians, and patients/families. This role involves providing leadership and oversight for specialized services or populations, applying expertise in a specialized field of nursing to lead efforts to improve nursing quality, and providing specialized health education. The position also requires compliance with internal policies and external regulations for safe and effective care delivery and health profession education, as well as human resource management functions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
Current license to practice nursing in Iowa
A minimum of 2 years recent OR nursing experience
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstration of commitment to principles of Service Excellence
Excellent organization skills; detail oriented
Collaborates and develops effective interpersonal relationships with nursing staff, medical staff, interdisciplinary teams, and other hospital departments.

Nice To Haves

Robotic surgical procedures
Expertise in Epic Optime
Knowledge of OR scheduling processes
Specialty certification within one year of eligibility to sit for exam.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with nursing, medical staff, and other health professionals in planning care for specific patient populations by providing surgery scheduling oversight.
Participate in patient management to facilitate preference card accuracy.
Participate in reconciliation of surgery charging.
Apply expertise in specialized field of nursing to lead efforts to improve nursing quality and other services that support the practice of nursing. Areas of focus are care planning, surgical schedule oversight, charge reconciliation, and documentation audits.
Provide specialized health education to health profession students and residents applicable to patients in field of expertise.
Communicate detailed, complex medical information to a variety of audiences.
Follow and apply policies and meet documentation requirements.
Participate in Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives.
Report variances and work to address them.
Recommend policies and/or procedures enhancements that address new and improved care processes.
Provide direction, assignments, evaluative feedback, coaching and counseling to staff, students and residents to assure outcomes are achieved.
May hire, develop, and manage the performance of staff and assure compliance with UI policies and procedures.
Adjusts to and develops self to prepare for new or changing assignments, processes, people, and priorities as organizational needs dictate.
Sets clear expectations for self and team to achieve work objectives and overcome obstacles.
Strives for excellence in performance by upholding established ethical standards and upholding university values.
Provides frequent updates on operations and financial performance to leadership.
Ability to utilize existing resources and learning to achieve or exceed desired outcomes of current and future organizational goals/needs.
Able to demonstrate ethical behavior in situations while producing results.
Participates in developing a variety of effective ways to deal with service challenges.
Models service delivery and coach others to deliver excellent service in a variety of settings.
Communicates well with direct reports, peers, leadership, and external constituents.
Utilizes various methods for information sharing and information gathering.
Modifies processes to enhance service.
Ability to meet or exceed customer service needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.
Ability to effectively transmit and interpret information through appropriate communication with internal and external customers.
Coaches patients and families on how to be proactive in managing their own care.
Implements systems or databases that share medical information within and across organizations.
Oversees care coordination for special-needs patients or patients with chronic illnesses.
Makes changes to the patient care plan based on patient status and progress.
Tracks patient status changes through regular reports from multidisciplinary team members.
Implements care plan policies that reduce unneeded or duplicated services as a cost-saving measure.
Coaches others to improve their skills by providing constructive feedback to learner that enhances skill development.
Instructs students, residents, and/or staff in a number of clinical competencies.
Reports the results of an individual competency gap analysis; reports difficulties and problems that occur in the learning process.
Assists students, residents and staff in creating individual competency development plans and designs a learning program to improve competency.
Explains to others how learning or training events are related to competency and proficiency levels; creates skill-practice opportunities.
Creates reports detailing performance measures and organizational progress against each.
Submits performance reports to management, payers, and regulatory agencies.
Considers evidence-based outcomes when selecting treatments or procedures.
Follows pre-established performance guidelines.
Identifies potential areas for performance improvement; refers them to more experienced personnel.
Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures.
Identifies and refers potential exceptions upward for review and approval.
Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.
Contributes to the development and implementation of specific procedures.
Describes control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques.
Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.