Registered Nurse Clinical Nurse Specialist - Labor & Delivery and Mom Baby

Essential Functions

• PATIENT/CLIENT SPHERE
  • Conducts comprehensive, holistic wellness and illness assessments as needed, including elements of context (disease, culture and age-related) using known or innovative evidence-based techniques, tools, and methods.
  • Synthesizes assessment data & draws conclusion about individual/aggregate patient problems with etiologies amenable to nursing interventions.
  • Assists in providing care for difficult and complex patient care problems.
  • Collaborates with physicians and other team members to develop and implement an interdisciplinary plan of care for select patients.
  • Integrates evidence-based nursing interventions into comprehensive plan of care to enhance patient outcomes.
  • Evaluates effect of interventions for individuals and populations of patients for clinical effectiveness, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, consumer satisfaction, and ethical considerations.
  • Identifies researchable patient problems/needs for clinical inquiry projects to describe clinical profiles, including etiologies of problems, needs for interventions, outcomes of current practice and costs.
  • Designs new programs - identifies, collects, and analyzes appropriate data on the target population that serve as the basis for demonstrating CNS impact on program outcomes.
• NURSING PERSONNEL SPHERE
  • Sets standards for nursing practice based on professional specialty organizations and best available evidence to achieve nurse-sensitive outcomes.
  • Acts as clinical resource to staff nurses, assuring compliance with patient care standards and standards of research-based practice.
  • Affords assistance to staff in critiquing and appropriately applying nursing research and related research to nursing practice, while incorporating clinical, fiscal and resource management considerations.
  • Consults with staff in identifying learning and development needs; offers guidance in the form of instruction, resources and mentoring as appropriate.
  • Assesses patterns of outcomes related to nursing practice by assessing knowledge and skill of nursing personnel.
• ORGANIZATION/NETWORK SPHERE
  • Consults on issues related to clinical specialty within departments throughout hospital.
  • Designs system-level assessment methods to identify organization structures, functions, and system-level variables that impact nursing practice and nurse-sensitive outcomes.
  • Leads nursing and multidisciplinary groups in developing and implementing innovative solutions/programs for patient care issues.
  • Contributes to the development of multidisciplinary standards of practice and evidence-based guidelines; collaborates with colleagues from other disciplines to seek support for change as related to clinical practice.
  • Implements methods and processes to sustain evidence-based changes in nursing practice, programs of care, and clinical innovation.
  • Disseminates outcomes of system-wide changes to stakeholders, including impact on nursing practice outcomes.
  • Evaluates effectiveness of nursing practices, multidisciplinary relationships, and organizational policies in meeting and sustaining identified outcomes of care.
  • Adheres to and supports team members in exhibiting TMCH values of integrity, community, compassion, and dedication.
  • Adheres to TMCH organizational and department-specific safety, confidentiality, values, policies and standards.

Minimum Qualifications

• EDUCATION: Master’s degree in Nursing with a clinical specialty.
• EXPERIENCE: Five (5) years of clinical experience in a Clinical Nursing Specialist role in an acute care setting and five years (5) of RN experience in area of specialty.
• LICENSURE OR CERTIFICATION: Must have and maintain a current Arizona state license as Registered Nurse. Must be able to meet qualifications for recognition as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Arizona by the AZ State Board of Nursing. Must obtain and maintain current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).