Medical Surgical RN
CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Posted Aug 28
- Shift
- Nights
- Unit
- Med-Surg
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- Nights
- Term
- Permanent
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
The median for nursing in Iowa is $36/hr, across 120 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.
Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.
To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
Read the full posting
- Follow the nursing process which includes: assess, plan, implement, and evaluate. The nursing process is an ongoing process that can end at any stage.
- Assessment - Demonstrates a systematic, dynamic way to collect and analyze the following healthcare consumer data including: psychological, physiological, sociocultural, spiritual, economic and lifestyle factors
- Plan – Sets measurable and achievable short and long term goals according to standards of care based on the assessment by the nurse in collaboration with the healthcare consumer and multidisciplinary team.
- Implement – Implements and/or modifies the plan of care using assessment data, clinical reasoning based upon standards of care and evidence based practice. This includes care coordination, education and discharge planning. The nurse is accountable for the care directly, indirectly or through delegation. Professional and legal standards for delegation must be followed.
- Evaluate – Uses a systematic ongoing process to evaluate progress towards identified healthcare consumer goals. Revision of plan of care when needed involving the healthcare consumer and the multidisciplinary team.
- Documents all phases of the nursing process in the healthcare consumer’s record.
Job Requirements Required
- Graduate of an RN nursing program, upon hire
- Registered Nurse: IA, upon hire and
- Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
Where You'll Work
At CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs, patients are at the heart of our care. Our campus is designed to heal the body, mind and spirit of every person in a more comfortable, less stressful hospital environment. Our full range of medical services include a new pavilion featuring enhancements in heart and vascular care, surgery, maternity, cancer care, and diagnostic imaging.
Pay Range
$36.00 - $52.20 /hour
Sourced from a public job board.
Requirements
- Graduate of an RN nursing program, upon hire
- Registered Nurse: IA, upon hire and
- Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
Place
- City
- Council Bluffs, Iowa
- Median rent
- $1,030/mo
- Local household income
- $64,578/yr
- State price level
- 12% below the national average
- Address
- 800 MERCY DRIVE, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA, 51503
- CMS overall rating
- 5 of 5 stars (Care Compare, Sep 2026)
- Beds
- 141
rent and tenant-paid utilities
all local households, not nurse pay
Iowa index 87.8, where 100 is the national average.
Council Bluffs sits along the Missouri River in western Iowa, just across from Omaha, Nebraska. Nurses relocating here enjoy a close-knit Midwestern feel with convenient access to the larger Omaha metro's healthcare networks, dining, and cultural attractions.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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About the employer
Workplace: CHI HEALTH MERCY COUNCIL BLUFFS.
On your path
Med surg is open from year one. A broad first base while you learn which path pulls harder.
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- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
