Acute Care Nurse Practitioner | Becker's Top 150 Places To Work In Healthcare -2024-

**Bring Better to the Bedside as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at Mercy Medical Center**

We believe in bringing “better” to our local community in Cedar Rapids—better care, better collaboration, and a deep commitment to the people we serve. We’d love to talk if you’re looking for a role that supports your professional growth and connection to a vibrant community.

Local Team Collaboration:

• We take pride in our well-established team of 14 physicians and 8 APPs at Mercy Medical Center.
• Work alongside a Medical Director, Associate Medical Director, two clinical performance nurses, and a Program Manager
• As a team, we value our collaboration with the nurses and specialists throughout the hospital.
• We utilize EPIC as well as our internal informatics platform.
• Nurse Practitioner board certification is required
• At least 1 year of acute care hospitalist experience preferred.

Scheduling:

• We are seeking a Nurse Practitioner for both our day and swing shifts with full and part-time schedules.
• Our schedule is relatively predictable, so our team typically works 7-days-on, 7-days-off.
• Generally, our nurse practitioners will work 7 am-5 pm and 4 pm-2 am rounding during the day shift (average of 12 patients per shift) and focusing on admissions during the evening shift (average of 7-8 admissions per shift). However, volumes can ebb and flow depending on the time of year and staffing.
• Highly autonomous role

Key Responsibilities:

• Even though our nurse practitioners don’t provide ICU coverage, our physicians may assist from a medical management perspective from time to time.
• Our team is highly engaged, so we respond to codes and rapid alerts on our patients and assist if one is called and we are nearby; we try to help each other in any way we can.
• We meet monthly for a team meeting and a patient experience touch base. We also have a short morning huddle daily to secure handoffs and ensure everyone is ready for the day.

Living and Working in Cedar Rapids:

• Many who come to Cedar Rapids are pleasantly surprised to find a highly diverse population base. This is mainly due to major employers such as Collins Aerospace and Transamerica. These world-renowned companies, coupled with the University of Iowa (located 30 minutes from Cedar Rapids), equate to the celebration of cultural diversity that makes Cedar Rapids feel comfortable to many worldwide.
• Our team actively serves on hospital committees and projects, with two hospitals represented for better coverage and time management. We encourage members to join committees that match their passions. Since partnering with Mercy in 2015, we’ve built a strong relationship with administration and are trusted on hospital-wide initiatives. Beyond the hospital, we support our community by adopting a family during the holidays and helping the Catholic Worker House emergency shelter.

Compensation:

• Rewarding compensation structure.

About Sound Physicians

As a physician-founded and led medical group, we believe that a better career—one with strong support and meaningful opportunity—leads to better care for patients. That’s why our promise is to bring better to the bedside: better ideas, better approaches, better care.

We practice hospital-based medicine at the community level, with empowered local teams and leadership supported by a nationwide network. Our multi-specialty medical group includes more than 4,000 physicians, advanced practice providers, CRNAs, and nurses working across 400 hospitals in 45 states.

At Sound, each of us is a care catalyst—creating exceptional clinical partnerships that unlock quality, affordable, and dignified care for every patient. We offer greater autonomy, flexibility, and support in your role and within your specialty, so you can focus on building meaningful connections across teams and communities.

Uncompromising care is a collective effort. While our clinicians provide care at the bedside, our business colleagues play a vital role—building strong teams, forming key partnerships, attracting great talent, and keeping operations running smoothly. Their work ensures our clinicians can stay focused on what matters most: caring for patients.

We are unified by purpose and driven by impact. With competitive total rewards and opportunities for purposeful growth and focused development, we empower you in your role and career. Together, we support our patients, our partners, and each other.