Nurse Specialist

MultiCare Health System•Tacoma, WA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Nurse Specialist (NS) leads the advancement of nursing practice at the micro and macro levels. Through clinical judgment and collaboration, the NS enhances nursing care and its impact on each patient’s unique characteristics, developing plans of care that ensure advocacy. The NS translates evidence into practice to achieve safe, quality, and cost-effective outcomes and leads organizational and system changes using systems thinking to optimize resources and improve outcomes. The role also analyzes and evaluates data to ensure practice is patient-centered, safe, timely, effective, and efficient; designs strategies and interventions to optimize the patient, nurse, and systems spheres of impact; and functions as an expert clinician and patient advocate. The position is based at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital, a 367-bed regional medical center in Tacoma, Washington. The hospital provides emergency and trauma care, advanced cardiac, neurological, orthopedic, and robotic surgery, cancer care, birth services, and specialized neonatal care in partnership with Mary Bridge Children’s.

Requirements

Master’s degree required.
Current Registered Nurse license in Washington State or Multistate License endorsement (MLS).
Nursing certification or related professional certification; if not held at hire, certification must be acquired within one year of hire.
Five years of experience with the assigned patient population.

Nice To Haves

DNP or PhD preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead the advancement of nursing practice at micro and macro levels.
Use clinical judgment and collaboration to enhance nursing care and develop plans of care that ensure patient advocacy.
Translate evidence into practice to achieve safe, quality, and cost-effective outcomes.
Lead organizational and system changes using systems thinking to optimize resources and improve outcomes.
Analyze and evaluate data to ensure practice is patient-centered, safe, timely, effective, and efficient.
Design strategies and interventions to optimize outcomes across the patient, nurse, and systems spheres of impact.
Function as an expert clinician and patient advocate.