Staff Nurse - Operating Room, Oto; ENT and Oral Surgery Team

Job Overview

Staff Nurses will provide nursing care for patients undergoing a broad range of ENT and oral surgery procedures, including routine, complex, and reconstructive surgeries.

• Apply nursing theory to assess, diagnose, treat, and evaluate patient responses to health and illness.
• Assess patient health‑care preferences and expectations.
• Collaboratively coordinate the continuum of care across settings.
• Develop patient care plans based on condition, age, and psychosocial factors, prescribing interventions to achieve expected outcomes.
• Implement care plans according to patient priorities, documenting interventions and patient/family responses.
• Collaborate with patients and families to integrate their input into multidisciplinary care plans.
• Develop, coordinate, and implement transfer/discharge planning throughout the episode of care.
• Implement nursing interventions in line with department, division, or unit policies, procedures, and protocols to maintain a safe environment for patients, visitors, and staff.
• Follow universal precautions.

90–100% effort.

Monday through Friday rotating 10‑ or 12‑hour shifts; scheduled weekends, on‑call shifts, and rotating holidays.

University Campus.

Base salary: $61,183 (at 100% effort). Sign‑on bonus up to $12,500. Shift differentials for evening, night, and weekend shifts. Inpatient differentials up to $10,000 per year. OR premium pay up to $10,000 at 100% effort.

Benefits include paid vacation, sick leave, health, dental, life, and disability insurance, and generous employer contributions to retirement plans.

• Associate’s Degree in Nursing, Diploma in Nursing, 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).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills with patients/families, nursing staff, and interdisciplinary team members.
• General computer skills.
• Current Iowa nursing license required by hire date.

• Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing or Masters Degree in Nursing highly desired.
• Active enrollment in a BSN program if degree not yet obtained.
• Knowledge of university policies and procedures desired.

• Classification
  
  Title:
  
  Staff Nurse
• Appointment Type: SEIU
• Schedule:
  
  Full‑time
• Work Modality Options:
  On Campus