Clinical Nurse Leader; RN

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Day (United States of America)

The Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s degree in Nursing from a university with a specialized CNL program. The competencies unique to CNL practice are clinical leadership, care environment management, and clinical outcomes management. The CNL enacts these competencies at the clinical microsystem defined as functional front‑line unit such as a hospital unit, outpatient clinic, or home health setting, or unit level to influence care delivery processes and dynamics.

The CNL works with healthcare team members and leaders to coordinate care, manage resources, and compile and evaluate data with a focus on quality, patient safety, and outcomes. The CNL role was developed to seamlessly align with Well Star's Nursing Professional Practice Model and Care Delivery Model, and is based in part on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's "Competencies and Curricular Expectations for Clinical Nurse Leader Education and Practice" (2013), and an empirically validated conceptual model for CNL practice (Bender et al.

2016). The CNL partners with patients, staff, and providers. The CNL collaborates with nursing leadership to focus on the patient, at the point of care as a subject matter expert. To support this effort, he/she must maintain clinical knowledge. It is expected CNLs are RNs, CNL certified, clinically knowledgeable, uphold the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act, and implement the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association.

As a member of the healthcare team, it is expected the CNL upholds the voice of the patient and Well Star's policies and procedures while supporting service excellence goals.

• CLINICAL LEADERSHIP – CNL degree/certification and ongoing CNL education.
• Actively pursues new knowledge and skills as CNL practice, patient needs, and health care microsystems evolve.
• Healthcare ethics and advocacy.
• Focus on being a resource to the patient, microsystem healthcare team and the nursing profession.
• Continuous clinical leadership.
• Focus on communication, relationship building, creating and sustaining teams, and supporting staff engagement on a daily basis.
• Proactively addresses issues.
• Focus on quality, patient safety, patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates ability to collaborate with other members of the healthcare team.
• Develops in organizational LEAN management principles such as team input, huddles, Gemba walks, evaluating value in process steps, barriers to patient flow, A-3, etc.
• Fosters and supports shared governance to ensure nursing's voice in the organization.
• Works to ensure compliance with existing regulatory and disease‑specific standards of care such as TJC, CMS, etc.
• CARE ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT – Understand Healthcare Systems as Bundles of Care Delivery Processes.
• Focus on microsystem care processes and care delivery dynamics to optimize and/or redesign them to better serve the patient and team.
• Microsystem Team Coordination and Management.
• Focus on microsystem rounding structures and processes.
• Evidence Based Practice.
• Focus on provider and microsystem team best practices.
• Quality Improvement.
• Focus on quality with the purpose of improving care safety, effectiveness, timeliness, efficiency, quality, and the degree to which care is patient‑centered on current standards, EBP, regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge Management Using Healthcare Informatics and Technology.
• Focus on data and technology as a means to assess, drive needed change, and evaluate patient and microsystem care processes and outcomes.
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