Clinical Nurse Specialist, Mental Health

Providence Healthcare•Vancouver, BC

1d•CA$55 - CA$79•Onsite

About The Position

Providence Health Care's Mental Health Program is now hiring for a permanent, full-time Clinical Nurse Specialist to help provide clinical leadership, drive forward program development and education, and contribute to research and evidence-based practice within the Program. Being a Clinical Nurse Specialist at PHC means being supported by a robust network of interdisciplinary professionals. Reporting to the Program Director for Program issues and the Chief of Professional Practice and Nursing for professional issues, the Clinical Nurse Specialist provides expert nursing care to patients and families and functions as a clinical leader within the Mental Health Program. Consults and collaborates with Clinical Group/Service Leaders, other nurses and health care professionals to improve and advance nursing practice and patient/resident outcomes both in Mental Health and in nursing practice initiatives throughout Providence Health Care.

Requirements

Master's degree in Nursing.
Current practicing registration with the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia.
Five years of Nursing experience with three years of recent, related experience in a clinical area relevant to the area of specialty.
Ability to develop, implement and evaluate programs in areas of clinical practice.
Ability to perform in-depth holistic patient/family assessments, plan, implement and evaluate care for complex care situations, and guide interdisciplinary team members in care planning.
Ability to be an effective consultant for individuals and groups.
Ability to conceptualize research questions and collaborate with researchers to conduct research.
Ability to role model expert nursing practice.
Ability to assist in the development of professional and leadership skills of the nursing staff.
Ability to synthesize and utilize research findings in practice.
Ability to present clinical/research work in a scholarly way.
Prepared to be affiliated with a university school.

Responsibilities

Supports and conducts nursing research to improve clinical practices and patient outcomes.
Critiques, disseminates, and integrates research findings into practice while encouraging and mentoring colleagues in research and evidence-based care initiatives.
Provides expert nursing care to patients/residents and serves as a clinical leader in mental health, acting as a role model for professional nursing practice.
Maintains excellence in care, influencing nursing practices, and collaborating across disciplines to improve patient outcomes.
Offers consultation to nurses and interdisciplinary teams by guiding clinical decision-making, planning care strategies, and contributing to the development and evaluation of patient care programs and standards of practice within the specialty area.
Leads educational initiatives by identifying learning needs, developing and implementing training programs for nursing staff, and contributing to the education of nursing students and interdisciplinary teams.
Promotes a culture of continuous learning and professional growth across the organization.
Maintains practice excellence through involvement with selected patient/resident groups.
Utilizes practice opportunities to provide expert nursing care to patients/residents or groups of patients, to evaluate nursing practice, and to provide clinical learning activities for nurses.
Influences nursing practice by participating in patient/resident care advocacy issues directed toward improving practice and the quality of patient/resident care.
Acts as a role model for professional practice by integrating all components of the professional role: clinical practice, consultation, collaboration, leadership, education, research/evaluation.
Collaborates with other health care disciplines within the hospital and community to develop effective patient/resident care programs.
Participates in provincial/national groups related to specialty.
Coordinates care for select patients/residents (e.g., as case manager).
Assists the members of the interdisciplinary team with clinical decision-making and with planning, implementing, and evaluating patient/resident care.
Participates in the development of patient/resident care programs as required.
Evaluates the effectiveness of the consultative process for patient/resident outcomes as well as development of the consultee.
Provides leadership in the development, implementation, and evaluation of standards of practice within the specialty area.
Evaluates current practice using a systematic process.
Recommends changes in practice in conjunction with leaders, nurses, and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
Uses and/or develops evidence-based innovations to improve the quality of health care.
Contributes to an atmosphere conducive to learning.
Develops programs to assist nursing staff to meet performance expectations and standards of professional practice.
Implements programs directly, as appropriate, using formal and informal teaching strategies.
Develops and/or utilizes appropriate educational tools to facilitate learning.
Participates in basic and graduate nursing student education.
Participates in the education of nurses and members of the interdisciplinary team about standards of practice.
Demonstrates and promotes critical thinking which leads to the formulation of research questions and hypotheses.
Assists nurses to evaluate their own practice systematically and to identify pertinent care problems for investigation.
Critiques current research findings related to specialty area.
Disseminates research findings and collaborates with colleagues in determining the effectiveness in our practice setting, for those relevant to our setting, designs and implements changes in practice.
Assists colleagues in research efforts.
Conducts research by self, or with others, and disseminates findings in presentation or publication.
Identifies research opportunities and administers the research projects performing duties including writing research proposal, developing and designing budget parameters, sourcing funding from internal and external partners, hiring/firing research staff, monitoring funds/expenditures and providing detailed reports to senior staff.
Participates in nursing, agency-wide, and/or community committees.
Facilitates in the design, implementation and evaluation of agency wide education programs for nurses.
Participates as a member of a teaching group for a specified short term initiative.
Participates in establishing the goals, objectives, and standards of nursing practice throughout the hospital.
Provides professional expertise to health care professionals external to the organization on matters related to nursing practice including clinical, research and educational activities.
Performs other duties as assigned.