Advanced Practice Nurse Specialist - Mental Health

HealthPartners • Saint Paul, MN

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About The Position

This is a nursing leadership role within the Mental Health patient population across all 8 HealthPartners hospitals. The Advanced Practice Nurse Specialist is a clinical leader such as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) or Nurse Practitioner (CNP). This advanced nursing practice role is focused on influencing patient care, nursing practice and organizational change. This role attends to the needs of patients in a particular population wherever they may present along the continuum of care. This role coordinates complex patient care, evaluates patient care outcomes, utilizes, and conducts clinical research, provides professional consultation, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration. This role also develops tools (e.g., critical pathways, order sets, guidelines, protocols, and policies) which facilitate care rendered by others in basic practice. This role embeds evidence into clinical practice, leads committees and workgroups in quality improvement, and provides innovative solutions throughout the system. This role supports regulatory, quality improvement, nursing practice, standards of care and focuses across all 8 hospitals. Priorities in this role are: Maintain behavioral health regulatory readiness and timely follow-through on identified gaps. Lead proactive suicide prevention, restraint and seclusion, ingestion, elopement, and environmental safety improvement work. Standardize evidence-based policies, care models, competencies, education, and Epic workflows across supported sites. Expand complex-patient consultation and support for nurses managing high-risk behavioral health care. Strengthen data surveillance, quality-measure stewardship, dashboards, outcome evaluation, and reporting of clinical and operational impact.

Requirements

• Three (3) years (6240 hours) clinical staff nursing in acute care.
• Active RN License in MN or WI required at time of hire. After hire, RN must obtain licensure in the other state, and this process must be obtained within 3 months of hire.
• Current license as an advanced practice registered nurse in MN.
• Wisconsin licensure in advanced practice to be discussed at hire based on role.
• For areas with an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) specialty certification available: master’s degree or higher in nursing and completion of required education prerequisites to be licensed as an APRN, or completion within 3 years of date of hire.
• For areas without an APRN specialty certification: DNP or completion within 3 years of date of hire.
• Certified by a national nurse certification organization acceptable to the Minnesota or Wisconsin Board of Nursing (CNS, NP, CNM) where specialty certification is available.
• Maintain specialty certification as appropriate to the patient population served.
• CPR certification (American Heart BLS for Healthcare Providers).

Nice To Haves

• ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Responsibilities

• Influence patient care, nursing practice and organizational change.
• Coordinate complex patient care.
• Evaluate patient care outcomes.
• Utilize and conduct clinical research.
• Provide professional consultation.
• Promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Develop tools (e.g., critical pathways, order sets, guidelines, protocols, and policies) which facilitate care rendered by others in basic practice.
• Embed evidence into clinical practice.
• Lead committees and workgroups in quality improvement.
• Provide innovative solutions throughout the system.
• Support regulatory, quality improvement, nursing practice, and standards of care across all 8 hospitals.
• Maintain behavioral health regulatory readiness and timely follow-through on identified gaps.
• Lead proactive suicide prevention, restraint and seclusion, ingestion, elopement, and environmental safety improvement work.
• Standardize evidence-based policies, care models, competencies, education, and Epic workflows across supported sites.
• Expand complex-patient consultation and support for nurses managing high-risk behavioral health care.
• Strengthen data surveillance, quality-measure stewardship, dashboards, outcome evaluation, and reporting of clinical and operational impact.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401K with match
• Disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site employee fitness center
• On-site employee clinic
• Center for Employee Resilience that provides support and evidence-based practices to bring relief and build resiliency.
• Qualified non-profit employer under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior