Staff Nurse - Neurosurgery Clinic Triage Nurse (50% -80%)

**Sign-on incentive: Qualified candidates are eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $10,000**

Position Summary: 

• 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.

Duties to include:

• 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: 80% 
Salary: $60,000 minimum at 100% effort to commensurate. Salary will be based on years of experience and percent effort
Schedule: Monday-Friday, no nights, no weekends, no holidays. 8 hour shifts between the hours of 8-1630 with an occasional extension of shift.
Location: University Campus 
Benefits Highlights: Fringe benefit package including paid vacation; sick leave; health, dental, life, and disability insurance options; and generous employer contributions into retirement plans

University of Iowa Health Care—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.^®