Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job Title & Specialty Area:
Emergency Department Clinical Nurse Specialist

Department:
Education

Location:

Dallas, TX

Shift: Full Time

Job Type: On-Site

At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well‑being. Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community.

Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) provides leadership, mentorship, and clinical expertise within spheres of impact by utilizing unique and advanced level competencies. The CNS provides expert comprehensive nursing care directly to patients, supports and develops registered nurses at the point of care and serves as a leader in redesigning systems to improve access, quality, and safety in a cost‑effective manner. The CNS improves patient care by putting the best evidence and innovations into practice while solving challenging patient care issues, evaluating nursing practice, and monitoring patient outcomes for clinical effectiveness.

The CNS collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to design and implement safe, timely, equitable, effective, patient‑centered evidence‑based care.

• Conducts comprehensive wellness and illness assessments including development of a differential diagnosis
• Provides interventions to prevent or treat illness including identification and treatment of symptoms, functional problems, risk behaviors
• Uses advanced communication skills to address complex situations and conversations
• Intervenes to educate, guide and coach the patient, family, and caregiver(s) to establish a patient centered plan of care and navigate complex healthcare systems
• Leads discovery of innovations in patient care
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to identify and develop proactive interventions to ensure optimal clinical outcomes for patients with complex health conditions
• Develops innovative and effective quality improvement processes related to clinical practice at the unit and/or organizational level
• Identifies, trends and evaluates clinical practice quality metrics to support changes in the delivery of care that promote optimal clinical outcomes
• Uses and designs tools and methodologies to identify needs or gaps in the knowledge, skills, and competencies of nursing personnel to advance the practice of nursing

• Utilizes evidence-based practices to guide nursing practice and support patients and their families
• Develops population profiles and conducts clinical inquiries to determine the need to change practice
• Utilizes advanced clinical knowledge and communication skills through role modeling, consultation, and education with nurses and healthcare providers to support nursing practice and improve patient outcomes
• Creates and develops evidence-based policies, procedures, protocols, and best practice models/guidelines using advanced clinical and specialty knowledge
• Assists nurses and the interprofessional team to evaluate and change practice standards and ensure nursing practice is evidence-based
• Facilitates critical thinking skills of nursing/clinical personnel
• Monitors and analyzes nurse sensitive data to develop practice guidelines for improving quality outcomes
• Serves as a leader in identifying nursing, team, technological, environmental, or systems barriers/facilitators to clinical practice that require change, enhancement or maintenance
• Supports the professional growth of nurses by identifying and promoting new learning experiences and opportunities to be reflective in their practice
• Ensures the multidisciplinary team understands and implements practice changes in accordance with regulatory agency recommendations and the National Patient Safety Goals as well as current…