Flight Nurse - AirCare ; Davenport, IA

Flight Nurse 90%- Air Care 4 (Davenport, IA)

Qualified candidates may be eligible for a sign-on incentive of $10,000 based on years of experience!

The Air Care program is hiring for the Air Care 4 base in Davenport, Iowa.

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

As one of the first of 15 programs in the nation, Air Care 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, Air Care 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 Air Care as well as our Mobile Care 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 this superb Air Care base, and to help further our mission of: Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.

The University of Iowa Health Care Department of Emergency Medicine is seeking a part-time (90%) Flight Paramedic for the Air Care 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.

Duties include:

• 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.
• Utilizes, adheres and supports departmental standards and practice guidelines.

University of Iowa Health Care—recognized as one of the best hospitals in the United States—is Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical center and a regional referral center. Each day more than 12,000 employees, students, and volunteers work together to provide safe, quality health care and excellent service for our patients. Simply stated, our mission is:
Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.®

Percent Time: 90%

Schedule: Rotating 24-hour and 12-hour shifts, plus every other weekend and holiday rotation requirement.

Location: Air Care 4 base (Davenport, Iowa).

Education Requirement:

An Associate’s Degree in Nursing, a Diploma in Nursing, a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing,…