Staff Nurse Labor and Delivery Unit 60 WEO DN or N

Qualified candidatesare eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $10000

University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinicsrecognized as one of the best hospitals in the United Statesis Iowas only comprehensive academic medical center and a regional referral center. Each day more than 12000 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.

Labor and Delivery Unit:

The Labor and Delivery Unit (6JPP) is a 15-bed unit with a variety of labor triage and recovery rooms in addition to 2 operating rooms and 1 procedure room. This unit serves patients with low and high-risk pregnancies alike providing care for those with pre-eclampsia preterm labor diabetes cardiovascular disease bleeding concerns and fetal disease among other conditions. Both medicated and unmedicated labor is supported through a variety of techniques with obstetricians certified nurse midwives and family practice physicians performing deliveries.

Characteristic Duties of our Staff Nurses include but are not limited to:

• 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

Percent of Time: 60%

Schedule: WEO D/N or Straight Nights holiday and on-call as assigned

Rotations:Rotating days off every third weekend holiday rotation on call as assigned

Location:John Pappajohn Pavilion (6JPP)

Salary: $60000 minimum at 100% effort to commensurate *This does not include differentials. Salary will vary based on years of experience and percent of effort.*

Pay Differentials:Shift differentials for evening night and weekend shifts. Premium pay for additional shifts greater than 4 hours. Inpatient differentials up to $5000 per year

Benefits Highlights:

• Regular salaried position located in Iowa City Iowa
• Fringe benefit package including paid vacation; sick leave; health dental life and disability insurance options; and generous employer contributions into retirement plans
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