Clinical Nurse Specialist / CNS Fellow Critical Care (Full Time/Days)

About the role

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) or CNS Fellow with Critical Care expertise.

Responsibilities

• Applies nursing process to care for patients with complex needs across the lifespan.
• Conducts comprehensive, holistic assessments utilizing established or innovative evidence-based practice.
• Plans for systematic investigation of patient problems through clinical inquiry.
• Utilizes therapeutic relationship-building communication and shared decision making to promote health and wellness, healing, self-care, and peaceful end of life.
• Facilitates the access and utilization of hospital and community resources to assist in-patient’s return to wellness and ongoing health promotion.
• Teaches and provides reinforcement to patients and their support persons, addressing their educational needs, and leveraging teach-back to evaluate comprehension and learning.
• Led nurses, committees, and councils to change practice, disseminate outcomes, and influence health policy.
• Participates in professional nursing organizations and encourages clinical nurses to do the same.
• Designs and employs educational strategies that consider readiness to learn, individual preferences needs and the impact of social determinates.
• Identifies and facilitates opportunities for nurses and other clinical staff to acquire knowledge and skills that foster professional development.
• Mentors nurses to critique and apply research evidence to nursing practice.
• Fosters individual nurses professional development and growth.
• Collaborates with all members of the health care team including advanced practice clinicians, physicians, specialists, and other disciplines across the continuum of care to promote team building and to provide clinical consultation and education.
• Collaborates with nursing personnel and other health care providers to identify needed changes in equipment or products based on the evidence, clinical outcomes, and cost effectiveness.
• Contributes to unit-based governance models and system-wide nursing councils as a member, in a chair co-chair role, or as a consultant.
• Partners with other regional and system CNS colleagues to drive best practice and consult on community care projects.
• Provides concurrent and retrospective analyses of outcomes for designated patient populations with emphasis on vulnerable patient populations, such as older adults, the cognitively impaired, the behaviorally mentally challenged, and minor patients.
• Facilitates quality improvement activities directed at process outcomes and clinical practice through EBP and research methods.
• Identifies nursing research problems and utilizes nursing research strategies to develop clinical knowledge and research-based clinical practice.
• Translates nursing practice to evidence-based information to achieve and sustain nursing sensitive outcomes.
• Works with staff to disseminate research and EBP activities internally and externally.
• Assists nurses with developing presentations, posters, and didactics for local, state, national, and global programs.
• Collaborates with the Director of Nursing Research and Science to support and engage in the organizational research and EBP agenda.
• Establishes an environment for patient advocacy and ethical decision-making.
• Demonstrates therapeutic and effective communication strategies.
• Is a visible role model for nursing practice.
• Influences and shares legislative and regulatory policies on nursing.
• Leads or actively engages in nursing, organizational, and system-level projects.

Qualifications

• Master of Science degree in Nursing MSN
• RN licensure is required, issued by the PA Board of Nursing
• Clinical Nurse Specialist license is required, issued by the PA Board of Nursing
• Certification as a Clinical Nurse Specialist from a National Certifying Body
• Certification in specialty area
• Five 5 years of professional clinical experience in the area of specialty
• A healthcare provider in good standing with Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs, i.e. not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid or any other federal or state health insurance program.

Skills

• Expert Clinician
• Educator
• Consultant
• EBP Mentor
• Researcher
• Role Model

Benefits

Comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region.

Pay

Negotiable based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Full Time (40 hours per week). Days, no weekends or holidays.