Staff Nurse - Adult Vascular Access Team - 50%

University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics-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.

The Adult Vascular Access team assess patients' nursing care needs, evaluate effectiveness of care provided, and integrate nursing theory and research into clinical practice. Provide leadership to members of the nursing team in order to maintain patient care standards.

Specific Functions to the Adult Vascular Access Team:

• Function as a clinical nurse expert for Adult Vascular Access and SWOT Team
• Under limited supervision, perform clinical assignments across all adult divisions to facilitate patient throughput, provide short-term critical care monitoring, assist with admitting patients, and serve as a resource and leader for other members of the patient care team
• Interface with administrative, clinical nursing staff, physicians and patients/families to ensure patients receive the most appropriate Vascular Access device available to accommodate the needs of their condition in the most timely, comfortable, and pain free method possible
• VAT/SWOT members will be trained in ultrasound technology for PIV, Midline, and PICC placement
• Serve as Vascular Access expert to provide ultrasound guided technology assistance for PIV, Midline, and PICC placements as needed
• May assist to cover short term staffing and/or patient care needs on all adult inpatient units, the Emergency Department (ED) and Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU).  Each assignment should last no more than approximately two (2) hours
• Assist with admissions and discharges on units receiving bolus patient admits or discharges.
•   Assist the ED when they experience an influx of patient admits
• Transport critically ill patients requiring medication titration or mechanical ventilation to procedures, or other units
• Accompany and monitor patients to tests, procedures or main operating room or ambulatory surgery center.   This could include, but is not limited to, transport to MRI, CT or Nuclear Medicine; or procedure areas such as heart and vascular center, digestive disease center or urology
• Serve as a resource during emergency responses; may help care for other patients on the unit experiencing the code while unit staff are responding to the code
• Identify critical changes in patient status, notify appropriate personnel or take immediate action as indicated by patient's condition, including deviation from the prescribed chain of command
• Serve as expert and resource to staff regarding questions on/use of critical care devices
• Provide "teaching moments" for staff on specific patient care topics or new initiatives

Percent of Time: 50%
Schedule: Day/Evening shifts with flexible scheduling between the hours of 8:00 AM-8:00 PM. M-F with potential for rotating day off each week, possibility of weekend call 4x/year
Location: Regular salaried position located in Iowa City, Iowa
Salary: $60,000 minimum at 100% effort to commensurate *This does not include differentials.  Salary will vary based on years of experience and percent of effort.*
SEIU Pay Plan: https://hr.uiowa.edu/pay/pay-plans/seiu-pay-plan
Pay Differentials: Shift differentials for evening, night, and weekend shifts. Premium pay for additional shifts greater than 4 hours. Inpatient differential of up to $5,000 per year based on percent time
Benefits Highlights: 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. https://hr.uiowa.edu/benefits

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