Neurology Clinic - Nurse Clinician (Movement)

The University of Iowa Health Care Department of Neurology is seeking a Nurse Clinician to coordinate and provide direct patient care in the Neurology Outpatient Clinic for the Movement division. The Nurse Clinician will conduct initial assessment of vital signs, medication history, and PFTs. To ensure excellent patient care, this position also collaborates with an interdisciplinary team, including administrative staff, clinical nursing staff, physicians, and patients/families.

Duties Include:

• Collaborate with nursing staff and other health care professionals in the development and review of standards and in planning, implementing and evaluating patient care for a specific patient population.
• Provide direct nursing care, facilitate continuity of care and follow universal precautions.
• Coordinate and facilitate patient care between multiple disciplines including home health agencies, referring physicians and other community support services. 
• Coordinate patient care to better utilize supportive services through patient visit and possible admission, pre-schedules testing, follows up with test results to both patient and physician, obtains medical history, coordinates follow up visit appointment, provides medication, rehabilitation teaching, etc. 
• Serve as a clinical resource or consultant for specific patient population.
• Participate in development and implementation of managed care programs for a specific patient population.
• Manage the neurology patient database, including Telephone Triage and patient phone calls for Rx prescriptions.
• Provide leadership for direct patient care programs in area of specialization collaborating with unit-based nurse management team(s).
• Participate in decision-making process for financial management, operational budgetary decisions and cost containment strategies via management of supplies and equipment needed for special procedures.
• Participate in/provide leadership for divisional, departmental and/or intra institutional and community committees and projects.
• Participate in the ongoing implementation of current regulatory standards in order to meet state and national agency accreditation.
• Design and implement patient/family health education activities for the patient population.
• Serve as an educational and clinical resource to patient/family/staff, outside agencies, and health care professionals for the neurology patient population.
• Facilitate the educational experience for health care students and monitor the care delivered.
• Use relevant nursing research to improve clinical practice and investigate nursing care problems.
• Participate in development and conduct of research activities related to area of specialty.
• Demonstrates respect for all members of the University community in the course of performing one’s duties and in response to administrators, supervisors, coworkers, and customers.

For full job description, please email contact below.

Percent of Effort: 100%

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 08:30-17:00. This position participates in the late rotation, including one closing shift per week. No weekends, holidays, or call. 

Pay: 7 - https://hr.uiowa.edu/pay/

The University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center—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. ®

Required Qualifications

• A baccalaureate degree in Nursing
• Current license to practice nursing in Iowa
• 1-3 years nursing experience
• Demonstrated expertise in Neurology clinical area of practice
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills 

Desired Qualifications

• Minimum 1-year inpatient nursing experience, particularly care coordination across the continuum of care
• Experience working with Neuroscience patient population
• Knowledge of neurological diseases
• Ambulatory nursing experience
• Nursing certification

Please attach a resume and cover letter (under submission relevant materials) as part of the application process. Job openings are posted for a minimum of 7 calendar days. This job may be removed from posting and filled any time after the minimum 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.

For additional questions, please contact Erin Curry at 319-356-7355 or erin-curry@uiowa.edu.