Clinical Nurse Specialist, Acute Care

Stanford Medicine Children's Health•Palo Alto, CA

1d•$90 - $113•Onsite

About The Position

Clinical Nurse Specialists are Master's Degree prepared advanced practice Registered Nurses in roles characterized by providing care for patients with multiple or complex health needs within a specific clinical area. They use advanced clinical skills in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of patients. They also use theoretical and clinical expertise to assist health care providers and patients in promoting or achieving optimal health, develop and implement standards of nursing practice, serve as a consultant or expert resource person for other health providers, facilitate an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to meeting the needs of patients, seek consultations and make referrals as needed, and promote research to improve clinical nursing practice. Clinical Nurse Specialists assess, plan, provide, and evaluate specialized nursing care of patients by advancing the quality and scope of nursing practice through clinical practice, education, research, consultation, and administrative roles in the area of clinical expertise for a specified patient population.

Requirements

Master's degree in a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university.
Three (3) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.
Registered Nurse by California Board of Registered Nursing
Clinical Nurse Specialist by California Board of Registered Nursing
Basic Life Support by American Heart Association (AHA) or RQI Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
Ability to conduct research, document results, draw conclusions and make recommendations.
Ability to develop and perform patient assessment and plan of care.
Ability to identify competency-based education needs of and implement educational programs for staff.
Ability to perform patient assessment and triage.
Ability to provide consultation to physicians, nurses and other health care providers in meeting care needs of patients.
Ability to provide direct evaluation and consultation to patients.
Knowledge of advanced clinical practice education, consultation, research, and administration.
Knowledge of clinical operations, workflow and procedures.
Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services including customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Knowledge of the principles, practices and objectives as well as issues and developments in the field of nursing, especially as applied to the area of nursing specialty.
Skill: Advanced nursing skills in area of specialty.

Responsibilities

Analyzes unit patient care plans currently for evidence of documentation of standards of practice, shares findings with staff, and collaborates in developing a variety of valid and reliable assessment tools to assist staff with documentation records.
Demonstrates expertise in the execution of daily patient care, providing collaboration, direction, and instruction to the staff in the application and utilization of the nursing process.
Elects, implements, and evaluates comforting, therapeutic, restorative, and preventative nursing measures for selected patients; expertise in the planning and delivery of special patient care problems.
In collaboration with nursing managers and other researchers, performs, assists with, and initiates, evaluates and revises nursing plans of care that reflect a multidisciplinary approach to patient care; coordinates the nursing plan of care with the medical plan of care.
Maintains and teaches others the specialized knowledge and skill necessary to perform techniques and routines in the specialty service area.
Offers consultative services within nursing services and to other disciplines to provide or participates in planning, development, execution and evaluation of clinical research.
Participates in the hospital's quality improvement program; collaborates in setting unit standards of care and monitors indicators of quality projects.
Provides direct patient care using consistency in assessing current patient care situations, priorities, and needs.
Provides safety, comfort care, and treatment of patients according to established legal, ethical, and institutional standards.
Serves as a consultant to patients, families, and staff.