Staff Nurse - Intensive & Specialty Services Burn Unit

Company: The University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City
Posted on: November 18, 2021

Job Description:

The University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics Burn Treatment Center and Intermediate Care Unit (8 JCP) is seeking a full-time Staff Nurse.

Qualified candidates with a minimum of 2 years of experience may be eligible for a sign-on incentive of up to $15,000. Previous University of Iowa Health Care nurses that have left in the past 5 years, may qualify for a sign-on incentive of up to $20,000.

The Burn Treatment Center and Intermediate Care Unit is a 17-bed unit equipped with a state-of-the-art hydrotherapy room for burn/wound dressing care, a pediatric playroom and rehabilitation gym. The unit cares for both adult and pediatric burn patients as well as an adult trauma population requiring intermediate monitoring care. The unit has both inpatient and outpatient (Burn Clinic) facilities. Our staff also provide burn outreach and education and annually host a Burn Camp for burn patient survivors. The American College of Surgeons designated our unit as a Level I Burn Center since 1996.

Details:

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• Percent of Time: 90% - 36 Hours Per Week
  
• Schedule: Rotating 12-hour Day/Night shifts.
  
  
• Day shifts: 7:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. / Night shifts: 11:00 p.m. – 7:30 a.m.
  
  
• Rotating days off, every other weekend, every other holiday
  
  Characteristic Duties of our Staff Nurses include but are not limited to:
  
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  • 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
    
    Education Required:
    An Associate's Degree in Nursing, a Diploma in Nursing, a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing, Professional Masters of Nursing and Healthcare Practice (MNHP), MSN/Clinical Nurse Leader or a Master's Degree in Nursing (MSN, MA) is required.
    
    Experience Required:
    
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    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required
      
    • Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills with patients/families, nursing staff, and interdisciplinary team members as demonstrated through written and verbal interactions
      
    • General computer skills are required
      
      About UIHC:
      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 University of Iowa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, associational preference, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran.
      
      Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days. This job may be removed from posting and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.
      
      
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