Clinical NURSE Specialist; CNS- University Hospital

Position: CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST (CNS)- University Hospital- 7A
Job Summary

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be responsible for providing expert clinical leadership to the nursing staff on 7A in the University Hospital. 7A is a 32 bed telemetry and general medicine unit. The patient population is internal medicine patients that require telemetry monitoring with Medicine Faculty Hospitalist as the primary admitting service.

Mission Statement

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

Why Join Michigan Medicine?

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the worlds most distinguished academic health systems.

In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.

What Benefits can you Look Forward to?

* Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day

* 2:1 Match on retirement savings

Responsibilities
* The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is the clinical leader for a program or area of nursing practice within Michigan Medicine. The advanced knowledge and skills required for this role include clinical expertise in a focus area, evidence-based practice, collaboration, consultation, education, mentoring, and change leadership. These are essential to advance the practice of nursing and the professional development of nurses. The specialized knowledge and skills are used within three major areas of focus: patient/family, nurses and nursing practice, and the organization/system.

The CNS partners with the Clinical Nursing Directors on the unit and with Director of Quality and Safety. The CNS coordinates and guides clinical activities/projects of nurses within a practice area. The CNS is accountable for collaborating with members of the health care team to design, implement, and measure safe, cost-effective, evidence-based care strategies. The CNS is responsible for maintaining current professional knowledge and competencies and contributing to the advancement of the practice of nursing at the unit/system, local, state and/or national and international level.

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Direct Patient Care

* Serves as a reliable source of information on the latest evidence supporting cost-effective, safe nursing practices.

* Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team using the nursing process to integrate the nursing perspective into a comprehensive plan of care for the patient/family.

* Identifies and prioritizes nursing care needs for a select population of patients/families. This includes synthesis of assessment data, advanced knowledge, experience to pose problems amenable to advanced interventions.

* Conducts comprehensive, holistic wellness and illness assessments using established or innovative evidence-based techniques, tools, and methods.

* Initiates and plans care conferences or programs for individual patients or populations of patients.

* Calls for interdisciplinary care conferences when barriers or LOS protraction are evident or predicted.

* Assists the team and individual nurses to establish working goals and targets, and measures to be assessed and documented as evidence of progress in plan of care.

* Establishes intervention families within standards of care that are best united for best effects.

* Designs and evaluates innovative educational programs for patients, families, and groups.

* Establishes methods to evaluate and document nursing interventions at the individual, unit, cluster and professional practice model level.

* Evaluates the impact of nursing interventions on fiscal and human resources including establishing average and variance economics of plans of care for major populations and targeted conditions.

Nursing/Nursing Practice

* Collaborates with others to resolve issues related to patient care, communication, policies, and resources.

* Creates and revises nursing policies, protocols and procedures using evidence-based information to achieve outcomes for indicators that are nurse-sensitive.

* Identifies facilitators and addresses barriers that affect patient outcomes.

* Leads clinical practice and quality improvement initiatives for a unit or a program.

* Collaborates with nurses to develop practice environments that support shared decision-making.

* Assists the staff in developing critical…