Staff Nurse, Vascular Surgery UI Heart and Vascular Center

No Nights Weekends or Holidays!

As a Vascular Staff Nurse youll play a vital role in delivering high-quality evidence-based care to cardiovascular patients across our main campus Iowa River Landing and outreach sites. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with patients over the long term building meaningful relationships while supporting their recovery and wellness journeys. The Heart and Vascular Center offers outpatient nurses a unique experience to continue utilizing their inpatient skills like IV placement wound care suture/staple removal and blood draws.

Our clinic operates Monday-Friday and is closed nights weekends and holidays! Hours are flexible with 8 and 10 hour shifts available; schedules can be discussed through the hiring process.

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Iowa Health Care Vascular Surgery: Health Care HVC: are the best heart hospital in Iowa

UI Heart & Vascular Center is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the best hospital in the state for cardiology and heart surgery patient care. The best hospitals nationally received this rating based on patient outcomes number of high-risk patients seen patient experience advanced clinical technologies and more.

Being a Nurse in the Heart and Vascular Center

Position Responsibilities

• Function as clinical staff nurse within the UI Heart and Vascular (HVC) outpatient/ambulatory team.

• Responsible for patient intake and vital sign monitoring current medications and allergies charting suture removal wound dressings etc.

• Collaborate with other services to schedule and coordinate additional testing for diagnosis or medical clearance.

• Apply nursing theory to the assessment diagnosis treatment and evaluation of patient responses to health and illness.

• Assess patient health care preferences and expectations.

• Develop patient care plan based on patient condition age and psychological educational and socioeconomic conditions that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.

• Implement patient care plan according to patient priorities which includes interventions identified through nursing diagnoses. Document/report interventions and patient/family response.

• Collaborate and integrate contributions of patients and families into multidisciplinary patient care plan.

• Develop coordinate and implement transfer/discharge planning throughout episode of care.

• Implement 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.

• Maintain skills/competency related to special equipment medications and procedures common to the patient population of the unit/division.

• Serve as clinical preceptor to new nursing and/or agency staff as directed by the Nursing Manager Assistant Nurse Manager or designee.

• Provide clinical care/cross-coverage to all HVC locations (main campus Iowa River Landing and/or outreach sites) as needed/requested.

• Utilize adhere and support departmental standards and practice guidelines.

• Demonstrate acceptance of responsibility; pride in work performed; flexibility in acceptance of assignments while consistently maintaining professional behavior and appearance.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

University of Iowa Health Carerecognized 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.