Sr. Specialist (RN) - Perioperative Services - Sharp Chula Vista - Full-Time

Hours: Variable shift start and end times, 8-hour shifts (40 hours per week). No weekends or on-call required.

Pay

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position: $72.290 - $93.280 - $104.470 per hour. The actual pay rate and pay grade will be dependent on factors such as years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, and employer business practices.

Responsibilities

Masters or doctoral prepared nurse who applies clinical expertise within a specialty area and leads in the following functions:

• Care Coordination and Advocacy: Serves as a leader and partner on the interprofessional healthcare team to enhance care coordination across settings and among caregivers. Provides consultation and collaboration to design, coordinate, and evaluate plans of care. Mentors and leads staff to be patient advocates to actively involve the patient/family in the care plan development.
• Care Environment Management: Delegates and uses nursing team resources and services as a partner in the interprofessional healthcare team. Evaluates clinical and cost outcomes and identifies needed changes in systems and processes supporting the care environment to improve safety, effectiveness, timeliness, efficiency, quality, and patient-centered care. Uses information systems and technology to improve outcomes.
• Education: Systematically plans and evaluates overall nursing staff development in response to patient and healthcare trends, regulatory requirements, and organizational strategic priorities. Uses appropriate teaching/learning principles and strategies and current information, standards, and technologies to facilitate learning of patient/family and healthcare team. Conducts and communicates comprehensive outcome evaluation of educational activities on learner and organization.
• Outcomes Management: Assumes accountability for outcomes for specific populations within a unit or setting. Designs/redesigns client patient care based on analysis of outcomes and evidence-based knowledge. Uses performance improvement methodologies (DMAIC, RCA, etc.) to improve quality, cost-efficient care.
• Research and Evidence-Based Practice: Raises questions to challenge existing practices to promote evidence-based practice (EBP). Synthesizes literature and research findings to design, implement, and evaluate interventions for selected problems or populations. Fosters staff’s knowledge and skill in the research/EBP process and the application of EBP and research.
• Professional Development: Effects change through advocacy for the profession, interprofessional healthcare team, and patient. Promotes professional nursing role competence. Fosters a climate that promotes open communication, learning, and professional growth. Facilitates the implementation of change at the organizational level. Enhances own professional growth through self-evaluation, setting and meeting developmental goals. Participates in professional nursing organizations and partners with community organizations and schools. Commits to practice self-care, manage stress, and connect with self and others.

Requirements

• Master's Degree or doctoral prepared nurse.
• 2 years recent pertinent clinical experience.
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing (REQUIRED).
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association (REQUIRED).

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous educator experience.
• Nursing Professional Development Certification (NPD-BC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center (PREFERRED).
• Certification in specialty area of practice highly desired.

Skills

• Demonstrates advanced competencies in all areas of unit skills.
• Demonstrates complex problem solving and critical thinking skills; serves as a role model.
• Assumes responsibility for resource and teaching roles.
• Demonstrates leadership skills to positively influence the practice of others.
• Applies knowledge and expertise to achieve outcomes for the unit, department, hospital, organization, and community.