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UnityPoint Health
Waterloo, Iowa

Intensive Care Unit Nocturnist - Advanced Practice Provider - Waterloo IA

Nurse PractitionerNo callFull-Time Full Practice Authority

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Job Description

  • 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

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!

Please contact Kristine Harris, Advanced Provider Recruiter, at Kristine.Harris@unitypoint.org

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Patient treatment planningClinical documentation

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Intensive Care Unit Nocturnist - Advanced Practice Provider - Waterloo IA at UnityPoint Health a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 10% in Hospital Medicine (NP) — ranked against 289 active Hospital Medicine (NP) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

Hospital Medicine — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 50 active Nurse Practitioner listings this role was benchmarked against, 18% are remote, 52% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

Nurse Practitioner pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Nurse Practitioner by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.6 / 10 · top 10% in hospital medicine (np)ranked against 289 Hospital Medicine (NP) listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed paynot listedNurse Practitioner median $138k (middle half $129k–$159k)293 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost of livingIowa index 87.8US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Nurse Practitioner listings in Iowa175 active14,319 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 18% remote · 52% no call · 70% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Nurse Practitioner pay trend+1.1% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (289 Hospital Medicine (NP) listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Work-life snapshot

median 1.5this job 6.6
Among the best 10% of Hospital Medicine (NP) listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 289 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About UnityPoint Health

51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Generous time off
CME allowance
Malpractice insurance
Retirement contributions
PSLF eligibility

Living in Waterloo

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$171k
Typical market rent
$909/mo
Residents’ average commute
16 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
87.1
State income tax
Up to 6%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.