ASC Nurse Clinician 100%

The University of Iowa Health Care department of Ambulatory Surgery Center is seeking a 100% Nurse Clinician to Function as a clinical nurse expert and care coordinator for a specific patient population interfacing with administrative, clinical nursing staff, physicians and patient/families.

Provide Leadership and Oversight for Specialized Services or Populations:

•    Collaborate with nursing, medical staff, and other health professionals in planning, care for specific patient populations by providing surgery scheduling oversight.
•    Participate in patient management to facilitate preference card accuracy.
•    Participate in reconciliation of surgery charging.

Specialized Services for Nursing Care: 

•    Apply expertise in specialized field of nursing to lead efforts to improve nursing quality and other services that support the practice of nursing. Areas of focus are care planning, surgical schedule oversight, charge reconciliation, and documentation audits.

Provide Education:

•    Provide specialized health education to health profession students and residents applicable to patients in field of expertise.
•    Communicate detailed, complex medical information to a variety of audiences. 

 Compliance with Internal Policies and External Regulations for Safe and Effective Care Delivery and Health Profession Education:

•    Follow and apply policies and meet documentation requirements.
•    Participate in Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives. 
•    Report variances and work to address them. 
•    Recommend policies and/or procedures enhancements that address new and improved care processes.
 

Human Resource Management:

•    Provide direction, assignments, evaluative feedback, coaching and counseling to staff, students and residents to assure outcomes are achieved. 
•    May hire, develop, and manage the performance of staff and assure compliance with UI policies and procedures.
 

Positive Impact/Achieving Results
Ability to utilize existing resources and learning to achieve or exceed desired outcomes of current and future organizational goals/needs.  Able to demonstrate ethical behavior while producing results.

•    Adjusts to and develops self to prepare for new or changing assignments, processes, people, and priorities as organizational needs dictate. 
•    Sets clear expectations for self and team to achieve work objectives and overcome obstacles. 
•    Strives for excellence in performance by upholding established ethical standards and upholding university values 
•    Provides frequent updates on operations and financial performance to leadership.
•    Ability to utilize existing resources and learning to achieve or exceed desired outcomes of current and future organizational goals/needs.
•     Able to demonstrate ethical behavior in situations while producing results.
 

 Service Excellence/Customer Focus
Ability to meet or exceed customer service needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.  Ability to effectively transmit and interpret information through appropriate communication with internal and external customers.

•    Participates in developing a variety of effective ways to deal with service challenges. 
•    Models service delivery and coach others to deliver excellent service in a variety of settings. 
•    Communicates well with direct reports, peers, leadership, and external constituents. 
•    Utilizes various methods for information sharing and information gathering. 
•    Modifies processes to enhance service.
•    Ability to meet or exceed customer service needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner. 
•    Ability to effectively transmit and interpret information through appropriate communication with internal and external customers.
 

Care Coordination

Knowledge of the medical, social, economic, and other services provided by other departments or facilities, and the ability to integrate these multidisciplinary treatments for optimal patient care.

•    Coaches patients and families on how to be proactive in managing their own care. 
•    Implements systems or databases that share medical information within and across organizations. 
•    Oversees care coordination for special-needs patients or patients with chronic illnesses. 
•    Makes changes to the patient care plan based on patient status and progress. 
•    Tracks patient status changes through regular reports from multidisciplinary team members. 
•    Implements care plan policies that reduce unneeded or duplicated services as a cost-saving measure.
 

Clinical Competency Training and Development

Knowledge of training and development processes, tools and techniques to develop clinical skills of students, residents and staff.

•    Coaches others to improve their skills by providing constructive feedback to learner that enhances skill development. 
•    Instructs students, residents, and/or staff in a number of clinical competencies. 
•    Reports the results of an individual competency gap analysis; reports difficulties and problems that occur in the learning process. 
•    Assists students, residents and staff in creating individual competency development plans and designs a learning program to improve competency. 
•    Explains to others how learning or training events are related to competency and proficiency levels; creates skill-practice opportunities.

Clinical Performance Improvement

Knowledge of the factors contributing to quality patient care, treatment, and education; the ability to influence these factors in a positive way.

•    Creates reports detailing performance measures and organizational progress against each. 
•    Submits performance reports to management, payers, and regulatory agencies. 
•    Considers evidence-based outcomes when selecting treatments or procedures. 
•    Follows pre-established performance guidelines. 
•    Identifies potential areas for performance improvement; refers them to more experienced personnel.
 

Clinical Policies and Standards

Knowledge of and ability to use industry standards, policies and procedures relevant to function and organization.

•    Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures. 
•    Identifies and refers potential exceptions upward for review and approval. 
•    Provides feedback for improvement of procedures. 
•    Contributes to the development and implementation of specific procedures. 
•    Describes control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques.
 

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

Understanding of the issues related to the decision-making process; ability to analyze situations fully and accurately, and reach productive decisions.

•    Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives. 
•    Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes. 
•    Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process. 
•    Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns. 
•    Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
 

Percent of Time: 100%

Schedule: Monday through Friday. 8, 9 or 10-hour shifts, scheduled between 0645 – 1715

Salary:  $63,052 to commensurate.  Shift differentials are further detailed in the UI Health Care SNAHP manual.

SEIU Pay Plan: https://hr.uiowa.edu/pay/pay-plans/seiu-pay-plan

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 plan
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