Clinical NURSE Specialist- Children's Emergency Services

Overview

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will provide expert clinical leadership to the nursing staff in Children's Emergency Services at Mott Hospital, advancing nursing practice through evidence-based care, collaboration, and education.

• Direct patient care.
• Serve as a reliable source of information on the latest evidence supporting cost-effective, safe nursing practices.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to integrate the nursing perspective into a comprehensive plan of care for patients and families.
• Identify and prioritize nursing care needs for a select population of patients and families, synthesizing assessment data and advanced knowledge to pose problems amenable to advanced interventions.
• Conduct comprehensive, holistic wellness and illness assessments using established or innovative evidence-based techniques, tools, and methods.
• Initiate and plan care conferences or programs for individual patients or populations, calling for interdisciplinary conferences when barriers or LOS prolongation are evident or predicted.
• Assist the team and individual nurses to establish working goals and targets, and measure progress in the plan of care.
• Design and evaluate innovative educational programs for patients, families, and groups.
• Establish methods to evaluate and document nursing interventions at the individual, unit, cluster, and professional practice model level.
• Evaluate 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.
• Collaborate with others to resolve issues related to patient care, communication, policies, and resources.
• Create and revise nursing policies, protocols, and procedures using evidence-based information to achieve outcomes for nurse-sensitive indicators.
• Identify facilitators and address barriers that affect patient outcomes.
• Lead clinical practice and quality improvement initiatives for a unit or program.
• Collaborate with nurses to develop practice environments that support shared decision-making.
• Assist staff in developing critical thinking and clinical judgment through formal rounds, informal bedside consultation, and activity and procedural progression likely in the plan of day and plan of stay.
• Create a nursing care environment that stimulates continuous self-learning, reflective practice, and demonstration of responsibility and accountability.
• Collaborate with Educational Nurse Specialists and Coordinators on the operational design of orientation, clinical competency, and other educational program development.
• Mentor nurses to acquire new skills, develop their careers, and incorporate evidence into practice, including portfolio development.
• Model advanced communication and therapeutic interventions in interviews, patient-family assessments, and high-performance team conversations within urgent and planned care conferences.
• Provide input for staff evaluation.
• Provide formal and informal education for nurses and other health professionals, including health professional students.
• Lead the conduct and utilization of nursing research and evaluate daily work processes to remove low-value activities.
• Analyze data from quality reports, incidents, consultations, and care conferences to present trends and patterns indicating substantial quality improvement initiatives and educational needs.
• Consult with other units and health care professionals to improve care.
• Lead or assist institutional groups to enhance the clinical practice of nurses and improve patient outcomes.
• Develop, pilot, evaluate, and incorporate innovative models of practice across the continuum of care.
• Design and evaluate programs and initiatives consistent with organizational strategic plans, regulatory requirements, and nursing standards.
• Identify, collect, and analyze data to inform program design and outcome measurement.
• Participate in the selection and evaluation of products and equipment.
• Advance nursing practice through participation in professional organizations, publications, and presentations.
• Model high-performance team development in daily rounds, grand rounds, huddle reports,…