Clinical Nurse Specialist - Nursing West

About Us

We’re Maimonides Health, Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1,800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community‑based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drive everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree’s philosophy of patient‑centered care.

The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties;
Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130‑bed adult medical‑surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children’s Hospital, Brooklyn’s only children’s hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides’ clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Bone‑and‑Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is an advanced practice nurse and clinical leader for a mixed inpatient unit with emphasis on stroke care, epilepsy management, and medical‑surgical telemetry. The CNS drives high‑quality, evidence‑based, patient‑centered care across the continuum and serves as an expert resource for patients, families, nursing staff, and the interdisciplinary team. This role supports Magnet principles, quality outcomes, and professional nursing practice.

• Conducts comprehensive, holistic, and illness assessments using known or innovative evidence‑based techniques, tools, and direct or indirect methods.
• Employs evidence‑based clinical practice guidelines to guide screening and diagnosis.
• Assesses the effects of interactions among the individual, family, community, and social systems on health and wellness.
• Identifies potential risks to patient safety, autonomy and quality of care based on assessments across the patient, nurse and systems spheres of influence.
• Assesses the impact of the environment/system factors on care.
• Designs strategies, including advanced nursing therapies, to meet the multifaceted needs of complex patients and groups of patients.
• Develops evidenced‑based clinical interventions and systems to achieve defined patient and system outcomes.
• Uses advanced communication skills within therapeutic relationships to improve patient outcomes.
• Provides direct care to selected patients based on the needs of the patient and the CNS’s specialty knowledge and skills.
• Assists staff in the development of innovative, cost‑effective programs or protocols of care.
• Determines when evidenced‑based guidelines, policies, procedures and plan of care need to be tailored to the individual.
• Provides leadership for collaborative, evidence‑based revision of diagnosis and plans of care to improve patient outcomes.

Partner with the Department of Nursing Education in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating educational programming to ensure the desired outcomes are achieved.

• Coaches patients and families to help navigate the healthcare system.
• Provides education to individuals, families, groups and communities to promote knowledge, understanding and optimal functioning across the wellness‑illness continuum.
• Contributes to the advancement of the profession as a whole by disseminating outcomes of CNS practice through presentations and publications.
• Mentors staff nurses, graduate students and others to acquire new knowledge and skills and to develop their careers.
• Provides leadership in conflict management and negotiation to address problems in the healthcare system.

• Analyzes research findings and other evidence for their potential application to clinical practice.
• Applies principles of evidence‑based practice and quality improvement to all patient care…