Staff Nurse, Vascular Surgery - UI Heart and Vascular Center

No Nights, Weekends or Holidays!

As a Vascular Staff Nurse, you'll play a vital role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to cardiovascular patients across our main campus, Iowa River Landing, and outreach sites. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with patients over the long term, building meaningful relationships while supporting their recovery and wellness journeys. The Heart and Vascular Center offers outpatient nurses a unique experience to continue utilizing their inpatient skills like IV placement, wound care, suture/staple removal, and blood draws.

Our clinic operates Monday-Friday and is closed nights weekends, and holidays! Hours are flexible with 8 and 10 hour shifts available; schedules can be discussed through the hiring process.

• Please take a minute to review our webpages:
• Iowa Health Care Vascular Surgery:  https://uihc.org/services/vascular-surgery
• Iowa Health Care HVC:  https://uihc.org/services/heart-and-vascular-services

We are the best heart hospital in Iowa

UI Heart & Vascular Center is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the best hospital in the state for cardiology and heart surgery patient care. The best hospitals nationally received this rating based on patient outcomes, number of high-risk patients seen, patient experience, advanced clinical technologies, and more.

Being a Nurse in the Heart and Vascular Center

Position Responsibilities

• Function as clinical staff nurse within the UI Heart and Vascular (HVC) outpatient/ambulatory team.
• Responsible for patient intake and vital sign monitoring, current medications and allergies charting, suture removal, wound dressings, etc.
• Collaborate with other services to schedule and coordinate additional testing for diagnosis or medical clearance.
• Apply nursing theory to the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of patient responses to health and illness.
• Assess patient health care preferences and expectations.
• Develop patient care plan based on patient condition, age, and psychological, educational, and socioeconomic conditions that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Implement patient care plan according to patient priorities, which includes interventions identified through nursing diagnoses. Document/report interventions and patient/family response.
• Collaborate and integrate contributions of patients and families into multidisciplinary patient care plan.
• Develop, coordinate and implement transfer/discharge planning throughout episode of care.
• Implement 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.
• Maintain skills/competency related to special equipment, medications, and procedures common to the patient population of the unit/division.
• Serve as clinical preceptor to new nursing and/or agency staff as directed by the Nursing Manager, Assistant Nurse Manager or designee.
• Provide clinical care/cross-coverage to all HVC locations (main campus, Iowa River Landing and/or outreach sites) as needed/requested.
• Utilize, adhere and support departmental standards and practice guidelines.
• Demonstrate acceptance of responsibility; pride in work performed; flexibility in acceptance of assignments while consistently maintaining professional behavior and appearance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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.®

Education Requirement

• 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.

Experience Requirement

• 1 year experience providing direct nursing care in an Outpatient Cardiovascular Clinic, Adult Cardiac
• Catheterization Lab, Adult Electrophysiology Lab, Telemetry Unit, Cardiology Unit, Cardiovascular ICU and/or ER within past 6 months.
• Demonstrated ability to professionally interact with patients/families, nursing staff and other multi-disciplinary team members required.
• Ability to work autonomously in high-volume ambulatory setting with limited supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
• Demonstrated knowledge and clinical expertise in specific clinical area of practice required.

Certification/Licensure Requirement

• Current certification in BLS required by start date.
• Current license to practice nursing in the State of Iowa required by start date.

Desired Qualifications

• 3 years’ experience providing direct nursing care in an Outpatient Cardiovascular Clinic, Adult Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Adult Electrophysiology Lab, Telemetry Unit, Cardiology Unit, Cardiovascular ICU and/or ER within past 6 months.
• 1-year previous knowledge and experience providing wound care.

• Previous Epic Experience.

• Knowledge of University policies, procedures, and practices.

In order to be considered for an interview, applicants must upload the following documents and mark them as a “Relevant File” to the submission:

• Resume
• Cover Letter

Job openings are posted for a minimum of 7 calendar days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check and credential/education verification. Up to 5 professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process.

This position is not eligible for University sponsorship for employment authorization.

For additional questions, please contact Jordan Adam at jordan-adam@uiowa.edu or 319-384-5699.