Staff Nurse - Adult Vascular Access Team/ SWOT - 60% - Nights

UIOWA•Iowa City, IA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

University of Iowa Health Care is seeking a Staff Nurse for the Adult Vascular Access Team/SWOT. This role involves assessing patients' nursing care needs, evaluating the effectiveness of care, and integrating nursing theory and research into practice. The nurse will provide leadership to the nursing team to maintain patient care standards. Specific functions include acting as a clinical nurse expert for Adult Vascular Access and the SWOT Team, performing clinical assignments across all adult divisions to facilitate patient throughput, provide short-term critical care monitoring, assist with admitting patients, and serving as a resource and leader for the patient care team. The role requires interfacing with administrative and clinical staff, physicians, and patients/families to ensure appropriate and timely vascular access device placement. Training in ultrasound technology for PIV, Midline, and PICC placement will be provided. The nurse may also assist with short-term staffing needs on adult inpatient units, the Emergency Department (ED), and Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), typically for no more than two hours per assignment. Responsibilities include assisting with admissions and discharges during high-volume periods, assisting the ED during influxes of patient admits, transporting critically ill patients requiring medication titration or mechanical ventilation, and accompanying patients to tests and procedures. The nurse will serve as a resource during emergency responses, identify critical changes in patient status, and act as an expert resource for staff regarding critical care devices and new initiatives.

Requirements

An Associate’s Degree, a Diploma in Nursing, a Baccalaureate Degree, Professional Masters of Nursing and Healthcare Practice (MNHP), MSN/Clinical Nurse Leader or a Master’s Degree in Nursing (MSN, MA) is required.
Reasonable 1-3 years (within the last 2 years) Acute Care nursing experience is required.
Demonstrated expertise with Acute Care patients is required.
Demonstrate flexibility in multiple work assignments and ability to effectively multi-task work.
Proven critical thinking skills.
Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with patients/families, nursing staff, and interdisciplinary team members as evidenced through written and verbal communications.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
Current license to practice nursing in Iowa is required by start date.

Nice To Haves

Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing or Master’s Degree in Nursing is highly desired.
If Baccalaureate degree in Nursing is not yet obtained, active enrollment in a BSN program is desirable.
Demonstrated experience with venipuncture and/or central venous access.
Minimum two (2) years recent (within the last three [3] years) Staff Nurse experience in critical care (SNICU, MICU, CVICU or CRU Team #1) and/or Emergency Department.
Recent (two [2] years within the last three [3] years) clinical experience with mechanical ventilation, titration of inotropic medications and/or vaso actives.
Knowledge of university policies and procedures is desired.

Responsibilities

Assess patients' nursing care needs.
Evaluate the effectiveness of care provided.
Integrate nursing theory and research into clinical practice.
Provide leadership to members of the nursing team.
Maintain patient care standards.
Function as a clinical nurse expert for Adult Vascular Access and SWOT Team.
Perform clinical assignments across all adult divisions to facilitate patient throughput.
Provide short-term critical care monitoring.
Assist with admitting patients.
Serve as a resource and leader for other members of the patient care team.
Interface with administrative, clinical nursing staff, physicians and patients/families to ensure patients receive the most appropriate vascular access device available.
Serve as vascular access expert to provide ultrasound guided technology assistance for PIV, Midline, and PICC placements as needed.
Assist to cover short term staffing and/or patient care needs on all adult inpatient units, the Emergency Department (ED) and Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU).
Assist with admissions and discharges on units receiving bolus patient admits or discharges.
Assist the ED when they experience an influx of patient admits.
Transport critically ill patients requiring medication titration or mechanical ventilation to procedures, or other units.
Accompany and monitor patients to tests, procedures or main operating room or ambulatory surgery center.
Serve as a resource during emergency responses.
May help care for other patients on the unit experiencing the code while unit staff are responding to the code.
Identify critical changes in patient status, notify appropriate personnel or take immediate action as indicated by patient’s condition.
Serve as expert and resource to staff regarding questions on/use of critical care devices.
Provide “teaching moments” for staff on specific patient care topics or new initiatives.