Clinical Practice Nurse Expert

Job Duties

• Collaborate with ICCE stakeholders and unit leadership to align quality initiatives with health system goals.
• Use performance measures to identify and assess the delivery of evidence-based practices and promote outcomes that demonstrate delivery of higher-value care.
• Partner with Nurse Manager to develop strategies to promote quality outcomes within unit.
• Implement quality improvement strategies based on current evidence, analytics, and risk anticipation.
• Partner with Quality and Safety to apply just culture principles and the use of safety tools, such as Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) and root cause analysis (RCA), to anticipate, intervene and decrease risk.
• Assess patient handoffs and transitions of care to improve outcomes.
• Assess medication reconciliation and administration processes, to enhance the safe use of medications across the continuum of care.
• Use a variety of datasets, such as Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS), nurse sensitive indicators, National Data Nursing Quality Improvement (NDNQI), and population registries, appropriate for the patient population, setting, and organization to assess individual and population risks and care outcomes.
• Use information technology, analytics, and evaluation methods to: collect or access appropriate and accurate data to generate evidence for nursing practice; provide input in the design of databases that generate meaningful evidence for practice; collaborate to analyze data from practice and system performance; identify evidence-based interventions in collaboration with the health professional team; examine patterns of behavior and outcomes; identify gaps in evidence for practice; investigate best practice, research current literature to enhance innovative ways to care for patient population; and participate in specialty national organization and encourage membership.

Competency Management

• Identify top talent, coach, and develop clinical skill set.
• Performs as and identifies/trains additional skills validators on the unit.
• Identify population based needs, practice changes and monitor performance.
• Collaborate with interprofessional team to provide additional remediation plan for clinical staff who demonstrate practice deficiencies.

Education

• Provides content expertise for live and online organizational programs as needed based on clinical expertise, knowledge, and skills.
• Provides “just in time” teaching to enhance practice.
• Promotes the development of critical thinking and nursing judgement in collaboration the care team to address practice issues.
• Identify potential preceptors with nursing leadership team.

Role Development

• Exhibit strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrate coaching skills to support new and current clinical ladder candidates to improving clinical care processes and outcomes.
• Collaborate with shared governance and leadership team to increase specialty certification throughout units to meet unit certification goals.
• Use data to analyze practice opportunities.
• Quality improvement leader utilizing appropriate tools to address the identified need.
• Lead the development of staff nurse to develop expert Practitioners.

Minimum Qualifications

• BSN required and completion of MSN or graduate degree in related field acceptable from an accredited college/university within four years.
• Two years of clinical experience in area of expertise required.
• Successful completion of RN III Clinical Ladder advancement within 2 years in position.
• Excellent collaboration and consultation skills required.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills required.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Basic computer knowledge including Microsoft Office.
• Familiar with quality improvement methodology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced certification in a specialized field.