Clinical Nurse Specialist

Commits to the mission, vision, beliefs and consistently demonstrates our core values.

Identifies priority health-care needs of individuals, aggregate patient populations, families, and/or communities within designated specialty practice.

Provides routine or urgent care management for complex, high-risk patients/families to improve patient outcomes, investigates clinical practice issues, generates clinical study/research questions, develops new clinical modalities or improves systems in a quality-conscious, cost-effective manner.

Utilizes evidence-based practice to improve clinical practice and/or patient population-specific outcomes; provides leadership for performance improvement initiatives.

Establishes, implements, and evaluates goals related to the strategic plan and practice initiatives.

Serves as a consultant to ensure continuity of care, "best practice," and systems improvement for nurses, patients/families, health-care disciplines, and/or the community at-large.

Identifies learning needs of target groups, and facilitates/provides education that promotes practice improvement and professional growth.

Commits to self-directed professional development for knowledge, competence and experience in specialty practice area (e.g., memberships in professional and specialty-practice organizations, networking).

Education And Experience

• Current Registered Nurse licensure from the State of Nebraska or approved compact state of residence as defined by the Nebraska Nurse Practice Act required.
• Advanced nursing degree with a masters or doctorate in nursing and experience with advanced practice preparation in area of specialization required.
• APRN – Clinical Nurse Specialist licensure from the State of Nebraska required.
• Specialty certification preferred.
• Minimum of three (3) years in clinical practice specialty required.