RN Clinical Nurse Specialist

Primary City/State:
Phoenix, Arizona Department Name:
Clin Educ/Workforce Dev-Corp

Work Shift:

Day Job Category:
Nursing

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- University Medical Center Phoenix has held Magnet status since 2005 and was recently bestowed its fourth consecutive Magnet designation by The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC). This designation is considered the gold standard of nursing excellence. What makes this truly extraordinary is only 1% of hospitals nationwide have achieved this designation four times.

A RN Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) serves as a clinical expert, educator, consultant, and change leader. The CNS supports the care of patients with complex healthcare needs, partners with multidisciplinary teams to improve quality and safety, and helps nurses implement best practices. Rather than focusing solely on direct patient care, the role influences care at the patient, nursing, and organizational levels.

• Providing expert consultation and support for complex patient care situations.
• Promoting evidence-based practice and translating research into clinical care.
• Monitoring quality, safety, patient satisfaction, and clinical outcomes.
• Coaching, mentoring, and developing nursing staff and clinical teams.
• Leading practice changes, quality improvement initiatives, and system-wide projects.
• Developing and revising clinical policies, protocols, and practice guidelines.
• Participating in committees, work groups, and interdisciplinary collaborations to improve care delivery.
• Serving as a resource for ethical decision-making and complex clinical issues.

Successful candidates are strong clinical leaders who enjoy mentoring others, driving improvements in patient care, collaborating across departments, and influencing healthcare practices at both the facility and system level. This position combines advanced clinical expertise with education, leadership, quality improvement, and organizational change management.

The schedule for this position is Monday
- Friday, 8AM - 5PM.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you’ll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

This position is educationally and clinically prepared to function independently as an advance practice nurse in order to provide a scope of services to specialized patient populations. Integrates care across the patient/client, nursing and nursing practices, and the organization/network spheres. Uses clinical expertise in each sphere to improve patient outcomes and nursing care through individual mentoring and system changes that empower nurses to implement evidence-based care practices, and facilitate ethical decision making.

This position works within the scope specified by the applicable State Board of Nursing Scope of Practice, as well as the organization’s medical staff bylaws.