Clinical Nurse Specialist-Specialty

Allina Health • Sedro-Woolley, WA

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About The Position

The Clinical Nurse Specialist provides assessment, triaging, treatment planning, documentation, and healthcare services to patients with comprehensive care needs in a specialty population. The role collaborates with multidisciplinary professionals to integrate nursing interventions into comprehensive plans of care and improve patient outcomes. The specialist practices within a delineated area using evidence-based competencies, partners with unit leaders to educate staff and other health providers, and serves as a liaison between departments, clinics, and applicable community resources.

The position is a 1.0 FTE role working 80 hours per two-week pay period on an eight-hour day shift, Monday through Friday. Daytime hours may vary as needed to support hospital operations. There are no weekends or call.

Requirements

• Clinical care experience or specialty experience in a medical-surgical care setting.
• Licensed Registered Nurse through the Minnesota Board of Nursing, required upon hire.
• BLS Tier 1 – Basic Life Support – Multisource, required by completion of orientation.

Nice To Haves

• Clinical expertise in adult acute-care medical/surgical nursing.
• Experience in two or more of the following areas: complex medical/progressive care, postoperative surgical care, or clinical quality/patient safety.
• Demonstrated experience leading evidence-based practice, clinical practice change, nursing education, and improvement of nursing-sensitive patient outcomes.
• Master's degree as a Clinical Nurse Specialist from an accredited program.
• Advanced Practice Nursing degree (MNP or DNP) accepted in lieu of a CNS program.
• Advanced practice certification in a specialty APRN area through the Minnesota Board of Nursing.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive, holistic wellness and illness assessments of individuals or populations using evidence-based techniques, tools, and methods.
• Synthesize assessment data and draw conclusions about individual or aggregate patient problems related to nursing interventions.
• Identify expected intervention outcomes, anticipate potential ethical conflicts, and plan for their resolution.
• Formulate appropriate differential diagnoses and plans of care for complex, acute, and chronic healthcare needs.
• Develop and implement evidence-based nursing interventions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary professionals to integrate nursing interventions into comprehensive plans of care and enhance patient outcomes.
• Facilitate patient transitions between and within healthcare settings, including discharge planning and follow-up in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Evaluate nursing interventions for clinical effectiveness, patient responses, cost effectiveness, and ethical considerations.
• Assess outcome patterns related to nursing practice and determine whether practice should change, be maintained, or enhanced.
• Anchor nursing practice to evidence-based information to achieve outcomes.
• Mentor and collaborate with nurses to develop skills and apply research to practice through educational programs.
• Evaluate the effects of change on clinical outcomes, staff satisfaction, and collaboration with other disciplines.
• Use or design system-level assessments to identify organizational structures, functions, and variables affecting nursing practice and nurse-sensitive patient outcomes.
• Develop innovative solutions to nursing practice issues and lead nursing and multidisciplinary groups in implementing patient care programs.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary standards of practice and evidence-based guidelines.
• Select evaluation methods and instruments to identify system-level outcomes of care programs.
• Document and disseminate outcomes of system-wide changes and the impact of nursing practice and Clinical Nurse Specialist work to stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical and dental coverage.
• PTO/time away.
• Retirement savings plans.
• Life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Voluntary benefits, including vision, legal, and critical illness coverage.
• Tuition reimbursement or continuing medical education, as applicable.
• Student loan support benefits to navigate the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
• Well-being resources, including well-being dollars, dedicated well-being navigators, programs, activities, personal coaching, and tools.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed