Staff Nurse - Digestive Health Center Procedure Suite (60% Weekend Option Days)

UIOWA • Iowa City, IA

13d • Onsite

About The Position

UI Health Care Department of Nursing is seeking a 60% Staff Nurse to work for the Digestive Health Procedure Suite. This role involves applying nursing theory to patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation. The nurse will coordinate care across settings, develop and implement patient care plans, and collaborate with patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams. Responsibilities also include discharge planning and maintaining a safe environment by following department policies and universal precautions. UI Health Care is Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical center and a regional referral center, with a mission to change medicine and change lives.

Requirements

• Experience with GI procedures, specifically guidewires and wire exchanges (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills with patients/families, nursing staff, and interdisciplinary team members as demonstrated through written and verbal interactions.
• General computer skills are required
• Must be able to wear up to 25 lbs. in lead shielding for ERCP procedures.
• Current license to practice nursing in Iowa is required by date of hire

Nice To Haves

• Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing or Masters Degree in Nursing is highly desired.
• If Baccalaureate degree in Nursing is not yet obtained, active enrollment in a BSN program is desirable.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Fringe benefit package including paid vacation; sick leave; health, dental, life, and disability insurance options; and generous employer contributions into retirement plans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree