Staff Nurse - Nursing Float Pool - Adult Critical Care Tier 1 Day Shifts
Iowa City, Iowa
- Eligibility
- RNSign-on bonus
- Shift
- Days
- Hours a week
- 24 hrs a week
- Unit
- ICU
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The work and the unit
- Unit
- ICU
- Specialty
- Critical Care
- Setting
- Hospital
- Floating
- Floats to other units
- Union
- Union position
Staffing and support
The posting does not state the assignment size, and nothing published names it for this unit.
Schedule and commitments
Days, 24 hours
- Shift
- Days
- A week
- 24 hours
- Weekends
- Weekends required
- Term
- Permanent
Pay and benefits
- Shift differential
- +$5/hr
- Sign-on bonus
- $12,500
- Paid vacation
- Sick leave
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
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- Retirement plan with employer contributions
- Sign-on incentive up to $12,500
Do you qualify?
- License
- Current license to practice nursing in Iowa is required by date of hire Check your license
- Experience
- 1 or more years of current experience with Adult Critical Care/ICU is required
- Also asks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required
- Also asks
- General computer skills are required, including proficiency in managing multiple databases including Microsoft Excel
- Also asks
- Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills with patients/families, nursing staff, and interdisciplinary team members as demonstrated through written and verbal interactions
What's around it?
Living costs about 9% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,094/mo
- Household income
- $58,546/yr, all local households, not nurse pay
From Census ACS 2024.
About this role
All qualified applicants are eligible for a sign on incentive of up to $12,500 University of Iowa Health Care is seeking skilled staff nurses for their Nursing Float Pool (Tier 1) — also known as the Enterprise Staffing Pool — for Adult Critical Care Services. These staff nurses will circulate several services to cover critical care units at University of Iowa Health Care University Campus.
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Key Areas of Responsibility
- Applies nursing theory to the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of patient responses to health and illness
- Assesses patient health care preferences and expectation
- Collaboratively coordinates the continuum of care across settings 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
- Just in time assignments (cover sign offs, census flexing)
- Anticipated 4-12 hours in an area
- Holiday and weekend requirements
- Float between many units within MCU campus
Percent of Time: 60% - 90% - 24 - 36 hours per week
Schedule
Day shifts, holiday and weekend requirements Location: Iowa City, IA SEIU Pay Plan: PD20 https://hr.uiowa.edu/pay/pay-plans/seiu-pay-plan. Tier 1 Staff Nurses receive an additional $5/hr. on all hours worked.
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 plans - click here for details For more information about why you should select UI Health Care, click here
Education Requirement
- 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
Required
Qualifications
- 1 or more years of current experience with Adult Critical Care/ICU is required
- 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, including proficiency in managing multiple databases including Microsoft Excel
- Current license to practice nursing in Iowa is required by date of hire
Sourced from University of Iowa Healthcare’s careers page.
How this role fits you
About the employer
University of Iowa Health Care is an academic medical center located in Iowa City, Iowa, integrated with the University of Iowa. The system encompasses multiple campuses including University Campus, Stead Family Children's Hospital, UI Health Care Downtown Campus, and UI…
On your path
ICU / Critical Care is a specialty you move into. The classic route: base year, then transfer in.
Worth asking
The posting doesn’t answer these. Good ones to ask a recruiter or in the interview.
- Can you walk me through base pay range, differentials, and sign-on bonus repayment terms?
- What should I expect for holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load and staffing support handled day to day?