Clinical Nurse Specialist-Specialty

Clinical Nurse Specialist-Specialty### Clinical Nurse Specialist-Specialty Apply:
United Hospital:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R-0076033
** Location Address:
** 333 Smith Ave NSaint Paul, MN
** Date Posted:
** October 30, 2026
** Department:
** Nursing Practice & Research
** Shift:
** Day (United States of America)
** Shift Length:
** 8 hour shift
** Hours Per Week:
** 40
* * Union

Contract:

** Non-Union-NCT
** Weekend Rotation:
** None
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* Job Summary:

** Allina Health is a not-for-profit health system that cares for individuals, families and communities throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. If you value putting patients first, consider a career at Allina Health. Our mission is to provide exceptional care as we prevent illness, restore health and provide comfort to all who entrust us with their care. This includes you and your loved ones.

We are committed to providing whole person care, investing in your well-being, and enriching your career.
** Key Position Details:
*** 1.0 FTE (80 hours per two-week pay period)
* 8-hour day shift;
Monday-Friday, with some variability in scheduled daytime hours as needed to support hospital operations
* No weekends  
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* Preferred Qualifications:

** Clinical expertise in adult acute-care medical/surgical nursing, with preferred experience in two or more of the following areas:  
* Complex medical/progressive care
* Postoperative surgical care
* Clinical quality/patient safety
* Demonstrated experience leading evidence-based practice, clinical practice change, nursing education, and improvement of nursing-sensitive patient outcomes strongly preferred  
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* Job Description:

** Provides assessment, triaging, treatment planning, documentation and a variety of healthcare services to patients with comprehensive care needs, in a specialty population. Collaborates with multidisciplinary professionals to integrate nursing interventions into a comprehensive plan of care to enhance patient outcome. Specializes in a delineated area of practice with evidence-based competencies associated with that specialty. Partners with unit leaders to educate staff and other health providers to enhance patient outcomes.

Services as a liaison between other departments, clinics and applicable community resources.

Allina Health has a robust Mental Health and Addiction Clinical Service Line that offers the full continuum of care including integration, specialty outpatient clinics, addiction and co-occurring services, partial hospitalization and day treatment, and inpatient care. There are more than 290 mental health and addiction clinicians dedicated to the highest quality patient care across 45 primary care clinics, 6 integrated psychiatry locations, 4 hospital-based clinics, 15 partial and day treatment programs, 15 Allina and affiliated Emergency Departments, and 7 hospitals with 270 inpatient beds.

The Mental Health and Addiction Clinical Service Line is led by both psychiatry and psychology clinical leadership, in partnership with operations to advance mental health care for patients across Allina Health.  
** Principle Responsibilities
*** Participates in Patient/Client care  + Conducts comprehensive, holistic wellness and illness assessments of individual or populations using evidence-based techniques, tools, and methods.  + Synthesizes assessment data, draws conclusion about individual or aggregate patient problems related to nursing interventions.  + Identifies expected outcomes of interventions and anticipates ethical conflicts, that may arise and plan for resolution.  + Formulations appropriate differential diagnosis, with plan of care to address complex, acute and chronic health care needs.  

+ Develops and implements evidence-based nursing interventions.  + Collaborates with multidisciplinary professionals to integrate nursing interventions into a comprehensive plan of care to enhance patient outcomes.  + Facilitates patient transition between and within health care settings including discharge plans, patient follow-up in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.  + Evaluates effects of nursing interventions for clinical effectiveness, patient responses, cost effectiveness and ethical considerations.
* Evaluates Nursing Practice  + Assesses patterns of outcomes related to nursing practice, drawing conclusions that may require change, maintenance or enhancement.  + Anchors nursing practice to evidence-based information to achieve outcomes.  + Mentors nurses and works collaborative with nurses to develop new skills and apply…