Advanced Practice Nurse Specialist

About the role

This is an advanced nursing leadership role within the Emergency Departments across all 8 HealthPartners hospitals. The Advanced Practice Nurse Specialist is a clinical leader such as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) or Nurse Practitioner (CNP).

Responsibilities

• Influences patient care, nursing practice and organizational change.
• Coordinates complex patient care, evaluates patient care outcomes, utilizes, and conducts clinical research.
• Provides professional consultation, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Develops tools (e.g., critical pathways, order sets, guidelines, protocols, and policies) which facilitate care rendered by others in basic practice.
• Embeds evidence into clinical practice, leads committees and workgroups in quality improvement, and provides innovative solutions throughout the system.
• Supports regulatory, quality improvement, nursing practice, standards of care and focuses across all 8 hospitals.
• Contributes to value-based purchasing, creates processes and standards for reducing patient falls, work place violence, ED throughput, sepsis mortality, ECMO.

Requirements

• For areas with an APRN specialty certification available: master’s degree or higher in nursing and completion of required education prerequisites to be licensed as an APRN, or completion within 3 years of date of hire.
• For areas without an APRN specialty certification: DNP or completion within 3 years of date of hire.
• Three (3) years (6240 hours) clinical staff nursing in acute care.
• Active RN License in MN or WI required at time of hire. After hire, RN must obtain licensure in the other state, and this process must be obtained within 3 months of hire.
• Licensed as an advanced practice registered nurse in MN. Wisconsin licensure in advanced practice to be discussed at hire based on role.
• Certified by a national nurse certification organization acceptable to the Minnesota or Wisconsin Board of Nursing (CNS, NP, CNM) where specialty certification is available.
• Maintain specialty certification as appropriate to the patient population served.
• CPR certification (American Heart BLS for Healthcare Providers).

Qualifications

Required qualifications include a master’s degree or higher in nursing and completion of required education prerequisites to be licensed as an APRN, or completion within 3 years of date of hire. For areas without an APRN specialty certification, a DNP or completion within 3 years of date of hire is required. Three (3) years (6240 hours) clinical staff nursing in acute care is also required. Active RN License in MN or WI is required at time of hire, and must be obtained within 3 months of hire. The candidate must be licensed as an advanced practice registered nurse in MN. Wisconsin licensure in advanced practice will be discussed at hire based on role. Certification by a national nurse certification organization acceptable to the Minnesota or Wisconsin Board of Nursing (CNS, NP, CNM) where specialty certification is available is required, and the candidate must maintain specialty certification as appropriate to the patient population served. CPR certification (American Heart BLS for Healthcare Providers) is also required.

Skills

Skills include influencing patient care, nursing practice and organizational change, coordinating complex patient care, evaluating patient care outcomes, utilizing and conducting clinical research, providing professional consultation, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, developing tools, leading committees and workgroups in quality improvement, providing innovative solutions, supporting regulatory, quality improvement, nursing practice, standards of care, contributing to value-based purchasing, creating processes and standards for reducing patient falls, work place violence, ED throughput, sepsis mortality, ECMO.

Benefits

HP offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical insurance, dental insurance, 401K with match, disability insurance, and tuition reimbursement. We also offer an on-site employee fitness center as well as on-site employee clinic to make it more convenient for our staff to get the care they need. We have a Center for Employee Resilience that provides support and evidence-based practices to bring relief and build resiliency. Regions Hospital is a qualified non-profit employer under the federal Public Service Laon Forgiveness program.

Pay

The pay for this position is commensurate with experience.

Schedule

The work schedule is 1.0 FTE, Day Shifts. No scheduled weekends. Exempt.