Staff Nurse - Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Program- Mood Track

**Sign-on incentive

• Qualified candidates are eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $10,000*
• University of Iowa Health Care Department of Nursing is seeking a 100%25 Staff Nurse to work at the Adult Psychiatry Clinic with the Partial Hospitalization Program-Mood Track.

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, but are not limited to: Applies nursing theory to the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of patient responses to health and illness. Assesses patient health care preferences and expectations. Triages new patient referrals and communicates with referring provider/team 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. Plans and facilitates nursing-led groups 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. 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.®
• Percent of
• Time: 100%25 (40 hours per week)
• Salary: $61,183 at 100%25 effort | per year to commensurate
• Schedule: Monday-Friday, 40 hours/week to be accomplished between 0730 and 1630.
• No weekends, no holiday, no call
• Location:
• University