Staff Nurse - Surgical and Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit SNICU - 60% - Weekend Option Day or Night

About the role

The Surgical and Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit (SNICU) is the largest intensive care unit in Iowa, seeing more than 2,500 patients each year. The 36-bed unit is staffed by a multidisciplinary team skilled in the care of acutely ill surgical and neuroscience patients.

Responsibilities

• Applies nursing theory to the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of patient responses to health and illness
• Affords 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

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills with patients/families, nursing staff, and interdisciplinary team members
• A minimum of current telemetry or current cardiac step-down experience or 1-year recent RN experience or completion of recent ICU internship
• 3+ years of current ICU experience
• General computer skills

Qualifications

• Current license to practice nursing in Iowa is required by date of hire
• Current ACLS certification is desired

Skills

• 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
• Knowledge of University policies and procedures

Benefits

• Fringe benefit package including paid vacation; sick leave; health, dental, life and disability insurance options; and generous employer contributions into retirement plans
• Relocation Assistant available to qualified applicants

Pay

$61,183 minimum at 100% effort to commensurate *This does not include differentials. Salary will vary based on years of experience and percent of effort.*

Schedule

Weekend Option - day shifts or night shifts