Field of Operations: Medicine, Dermatology, and Rheumatology

We are Uppsala University Hospital – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a regional hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we offer care to two million people in Central Sweden. Something is always happening here – a new life is born, a grandmother is operated on, a colleague is celebrated as a hero. With us, you will experience both tough challenges and fantastic events, in a strong community with colleagues. See parts of our reality in our photo exhibition; akademiskafotoutstallning.se (http://akademiskafotoutstallning.se). Welcome with your application!

Our Operations

We build our operations on collaboration, trust, and endurance. Our ward 100B1 has 7 beds. Here we take care of patients in need of specialized inpatient care within the specialties of rheumatology, endocrinology/diabetes, and dermatology. We primarily meet patients with rheumatic diseases where the immune system incorrectly attacks the body's own tissue, resulting in a symptom picture that varies depending on which organ systems are affected. This may involve impaired lung function, kidney failure, muscle weakness, or impact on the central nervous system, to name a few. We also care for endocrine and diabetes patients. Diseases that occur in this category include pituitary and adrenal gland-related diseases as well as hereditary metabolic conditions that disturb hormone production and/or metabolism in various ways. This includes newly diagnosed diabetes. The third specialty we are responsible for is dermatology. These patients may be affected by complex wounds or significant skin rashes, and we provide NHV - national highly specialized care as one of five hospitals in Sweden. In all specialties, there are chronic diseases, which means that a certain percentage of patients return to the ward due to flare-ups, follow-ups, and/or treatment. This gives us an opportunity to closely monitor disease progress but also to establish a closer relationship with the patient.

Your Mission

We value competence and continuously develop our knowledge. We primarily work with investigation, diagnostics, and treatment for our patients. The starting point in nursing work is to see the whole patient in history, status, and clinical assessments. As a nurse, you also work a lot with medical technology. Many patients are treated with biological immunosuppressive infusions administered under careful monitoring according to specific protocols.

We strive to constantly improve the ward with a focus on patient safety and work environment where you contribute your thoughts and ideas for improvement. We have scheduled training days where you have the opportunity to study and observe in areas within your profession that benefit our operations.

If you are newly graduated, you will participate in KUÅ – clinical development year, for 20% of your working time. After working for a few years, further education is available in areas including rheumatology, rheumatological pharmacotherapy, diabetes care, motivational interviewing, and clinical wound treatment.

Your introduction is individually tailored. During the introduction, you will work with different supervisors, both to gain insight and be inspired by various ways of working but also to naturally get to know your colleagues. You will have follow-up conversations with your immediate manager during and recurring after the introduction.

Your Qualifications

We respond to people with commitment, respect, and personal interest. We are looking for you who are a licensed nurse and who is driven to contribute to the highest possible quality of care. Our patient group is recurring, and the workgroup is relatively small, which makes good collaboration between us central.

In addition to the basic nursing skills, we expect you to:

• Be an active employee who contributes improvement proposals and presents your opinions.
• Always do your best to ensure that communication is clear, respectful, and relevant.
• Be aware of the variation in work intensity and be able to adapt accordingly.
• Work to create trust-inspiring relationships with your patients and their relatives.
• Treat patients, relatives, and colleagues with respect for the individual.

We Offer

We offer you as a licensed nurse a permanent position of 75-100%. An inpatient care supplement is received in addition to the base salary. Interviews and appointments will be ongoing. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability.

With us, you will receive benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/).

Want to Know More?

Department Head Karin Ahlström 018-617 11 51
Deputy Department Head Johan Ekland 018-611 99 95
Union representatives can be reached via Region Uppsala's switchboard 018-611 00 00

Do You Want to Work with Us?

Welcome with your application via the link below.

Region Uppsala values the qualities that equal gender distribution and diversity bring to the operations and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different backgrounds, abilities, and life experiences.

Region Uppsala places all permanent staff according to the needs of total defense. This means that for the individual employee, there are no obligations in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Before a hiring decision, a check of suspicion and criminal records will be conducted regarding all applicants who may work in psychiatric care, habilitation, care of children and youth, or coercive care of substance abusers, areas that are subject to optional record extracts. This applies to all who will work closely with patients, even if the tasks are not currently intended to primarily involve work with the above-mentioned patient groups.

This recruitment is entirely managed by Region Uppsala, and we kindly ask recruitment companies and advertisement sellers to refrain from calling.