Benefits of Nursing

Why Should You Choose the University of Illinois Medical Center?

Nursing at the University of Illinois Medical Center offers professional nurses the opportunity to provide leadership within the healthcare team.  Medical center nurses work collaboratively with physicians, advanced practice nurses, and other professional care providers to deliver excellent patient care.  Opportunities exist to partner with colleagues and the University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing to mentor novice nurses and examine innovative nursing practices.

Additional Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Flexible scheduling plus substantial shift and weekend differentials
• Three to five weeks vacation
• Twelve sick days
• Tuition waiver at UIC and other state schools
• Health and dental insurance

The Medical Center offers you the opportunity to be part of a world-renowned health care institution and one of the leading academic medical centers in the Chicago metropolitan area.  We offer superb patient care and state-of-the-art technology often not available elswhere.  The Medical Center is part of the largest academic health sciences centers in the world, which includes UIC College of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Applied Health Sciences and the School of Public Health.

Our College of Nursing is among the nation's best. In its annual survey of the "Nations Best Graduate Schools", U.S. News and World Report ranks UIC's College of Nursing as the sixth best in the country.  The college is also ranked in the top 20 in the country in five specialty programs.  "This reflects the facts that we have in place the essentials for excellence for advancing nursing leadership and that we have faculty who are superb teachers and creative researchers," says Joan Shaver, Dean of the College of Nursing.  "We are on the leading edge of what's happening in healthcare."

We know we have a lot to offer our professional nurses.  We would like you to consider being part of our commitment to excellence in patient care as a University of Illinois Medical center nurse.  Call (312) 996-0761 or e-mail Mary Flores and discover for yourself what the Medical Center can offer.