Staff Nurse - Intensive Care Unit - Nights - Campus

Staff Nurse - Intensive Care Unit - 60% Nights - Downtown Campus

All qualified candidates are eligible for a sign on incentive of up to $10,000

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 connected to the expertise, technology, collaboration, and support of our 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.

Intensive Care Unit

The ICU at the downtown campus specializes in the care of moderate to complex medical, surgical and cardiovascular diagnoses using a multidisciplinary collaborative team approach. The majority of diagnoses include but are not limited to respiratory failure, sepsis, DKA, CVA, CHF, AMI with PCI, AKI, ETOH withdrawal, overdose, recovery from general or orthopedic surgery. Intensive therapeutic modalities include inotropic/vasoactive medications, mechanical ventilation, CRRT, IABP, Impella and transvenous pacemakers.

• 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 psychosocial factors 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 a 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 accountability for the provision of care for patients and for care provided by self and other staff members under the nurse's direction.
• Evaluates the quality of nursing care provided by other staff members.
• Participates as a member of the health care team utilizing effective communication skills.
• Participates in the development of unit, division, department and hospital policies, procedures and protocols.
• Contributes to staffing solutions and cost containment strategies in the unit.
• Participates in projects/committees for enhanced functioning of the unit and supports unit level decision-making.
• Responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of an interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Participates in ongoing strategic planning process and in the development and implementation of computer applications.
• Performs other projects or tasks as assigned.
• Develops and implements patient/family teaching plans based on identified health education needs and the condition and age of the patient; evaluates and documents effectiveness and revises plan of care.
• Participates in the orientation of new nursing staff and ongoing education of nursing personnel as directed by the Nurse Manager or designee; participates in teaching with health care students; serves as clinical teaching assistant for senior nursing students as directed.
• Participates in research utilization activities and integrates research findings into practice.
• Applies…