Nursing Assistant - Labor and Delivery Unit - Evenings

Nursing Assistant - Labor and Delivery Unit - 100% Evenings

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:
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Labor and Delivery

The Labor and Delivery Unit (6

JPP) is a 15-bed unit with a variety of labor, triage, and recovery rooms in addition to 2 operating rooms and 1 procedure room. This unit serves patients with low and high-risk pregnancies alike, providing care for those with pre-eclampsia, preterm labor, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, bleeding concerns, and fetal disease among other conditions. Both medicated and unmedicated labor is supported through a variety of techniques with obstetricians, certified nurse midwives, and family practice physicians performing deliveries.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Perform patient personal hygiene such as bathing, toileting, feeding, dressing, grooming and oral care for patients
• Assist patients with bedpans, urinals and perineal cleansing
• Turn, position and ambulate patients
• Take temperature, pulse and blood pressure
• Enter daily patient record charting in computer
• Clean equipment, patient bedside area and nursing unit
• Set up rooms for patient admission
• Transport patients by bed, cart or wheelchair
• Transport equipment, specimens and supplies
• Stock and supply patient rooms and Nursing unit
• Perform basic CPR as required

Percent of Time
: 100%

Schedule
: 15-2330 Monday-Friday;
Holidays as assigned.

Location
:
John Pappajohn Pavilion (JPP)

Merit Pay Plan

Pay Differentials
:
Shift differentials for evening andnight.

Benefits Highlights
:

• Fringe benefit package including paid vacation; sick leave; health, dental, life and disability insurance options; and generous employer contributions into retirement plans.
• Relocation Assistant available to qualified applicants. https://hr.uiowa.edu/benefits

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Minimum Eligibility Requirements:

Ability to read, write and follow instructions

Please attach a resume as part of the application process. Job openings are posted for a minimum of10calendar days. This job may be removed from posting and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended. For questions or additional information, please contact Kiley Skay at kiley-skay

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check. 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.

• Classification
  
  Title:
  
  Nursing Assistant
• Appointment Type:
  Merit
• Schedule:
  
  Part-time

Contact Information

• Contact Name:
  Kiley Skay

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