Nurse Practitioner - Critical Care

• Area of Interest: Advanced Practice Nursing and Physician Assistants

• Job ID: 168222

Overview

Intensive Care Unit Nocturnist, NP or PA- Waterloo, IA

UnityPoint Clinic is searching for an Advanced Practice Provider to join our team in Waterloo, IA

Choose a career that matters at UnityPoint Health. At UnityPoint Health, we believe that our patient-centered vision and physician-driven philosophy, along with our one team approach, ensures every patient knows just how much they matter to this world. Commitment to our team has earned us recognition as a Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare 2022 ( by Becker’s Healthcare and among America’s Best Employers By State ( in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Come be an essential part of our core purpose—to improve the health of the people and communities we serve. At UnityPoint Health, you matter.

UnityPoint Clinic is a physician-led, nonprofit health care organization offering comprehensive services in primary care, walk-in care and specialty care. The clinical teams at the area’s clinics are improving outcomes, lowering the number of hospital readmissions and reducing avoidable costs associated with treating chronic conditions. The UnityPoint Clinic team is known for excellence and quality patient care putting patients at the center of their care to provide the best level of health and well-being.

• This is an ideal role for an Advanced Practice Provider who wants to work closely with a team of Physicians and nurses to manage critically ill patients in the Hospital

• Adult patients only

• Looking to expand program with additional Critical Care providers

• 7 Shifts per pay period

• 7PM - 7AM

• 204 bed facility with full range of specialist and subspecialist

• 12 bed open ICU with plan to expand to 16 beds closed ICU

• Fully integrated system with clinic and hospitals on Epic EMR to improve care coordination

Why UnityPoint Health?

At UnityPoint Health, you matter. We’re proud to be recognized as a Top Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare several years in a row for our commitment to our team members.

Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options focused on your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in. Here are just a few:    

• Expect paid time off, parental leave, 401K matching and an employee recognition program.

• Dental, health and vision insurance, paid holidays, short and long-term disability and more. We even offer pet insurance for your four-legged family members.

• Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement to help further your career and adoption assistance to help you grow your family.

With a collective goal to champion a culture of belonging where everyone feels valued and respected, we honor the ways people are unique and embrace what brings us together.  

And, we believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is a vital part of delivering an exceptional employment experience.

Join our team of experts and make a difference with UnityPoint Health.

Responsibilities

• Collaboratively manage critically ill patients in the ICU, trained to perform essential procedures such as central lines, intubations, arterial lines, and dialysis catheter insertions

• Actively engage in daily multidisciplinary rounds in the ICU

• Collaborate daily with the intensivists, hospitalists, and other consulting physicians to coordinate care and cleary communicate goals and patient treatment plan with the intensive care unit nurses to facilitate care

• Work within the critical care team and ensure coordination with attending, subspecialists, and nursing team.

• Maintaining a high standard of continuity of care in handoff communication between shifts among providers and physicians

• Average census: 9-10 patients per shift

• Ability to Work as a team member to improve the health of the people and the communities we serve

Qualifications

• Prior ICU and/or Critical Care either as advance practitioner and/or nurse preferred

• Demonstrate and practice aligned with our FOCUS valuse in accordance with UPH standards

• Hold an unrestricted medical license in the state of IA

• Hold current and unrestricted state and federal authority to prescribe and administer medications as necessary or appropriate to the Advanced Practitioners field of practice

• Eligible to work in the United States

We offer

• Attractive incentive package

• A competitive Total Rewards ( program offers benefits that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what stage of life you are in.

• Generous time off and CME allowance, malpractice insurance, retirement contributions and more

• Dedicated provider resources to positively impact providers work-life balance

• Eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, including a free third-party service for loan restructuring and consolidation.

• A commitment to ensuring you have a voice that is heard regardless of role, race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.

• Support and development opportunities ( that are a crucial part of delivering a remarkable employment experience.

• A culture ( guided by uncompromising values and unwavering belief in doing what’s right for the people we serve

Community Details

Waterloo and Cedar Falls comprise a metro area of more than 160,000 residents who are proud to call the Cedar Valley home. These two cities are just minutes apart, and though they’re intertwined by shared geography and regional pride, each boasts its own unique history and attractions. Whichever city you choose to plant your roots, you won’t have to go far to enjoy the amenities of the other – an added benefit of life in the Cedar Valley! (

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