Registered Nurse RN - Clinical Practice Leader

Trinity Health•Brighton, MI

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Practice Leader (CPL) acts as a member of the nursing leadership team responsible for driving safety and ensuring quality for patients and colleagues at the unit level. The CPL serves as a change agent to translate and integrate evidence into practice; to design and evaluate care and improve outcomes. As the process owner for nursing practice and quality, the CPL focuses on key nurse-sensitive indicators for improvement, utilizing process improvement methods to drive best practice. This position will support Trinity Health Livingston Hospital ICU/PCU unit, a 40-bed high-acuity unit within Trinity Health Livingston's newly opened Brighton hospital, providing critical and progressive care services in a modern environment designed to support seamless transitions across levels of care, advanced monitoring capabilities, and exceptional patient outcomes.

Requirements

A Master's of Science in Nursing (Clinical, Education, Administration)
Three to five years of acute care nursing for similar patient population.
Progressive experience in health care including involvement in direct patient care, educating staff, supervising staff, and problem solving of unit or organizational issues.
Current licensure as Registered Nurse in state of Michigan

Responsibilities

Performs and oversees the collection of holistic assessments and the development and implementation of a plan of care.
Assesses patient’s response to treatment and care in collaboration with other care providers.
Consults on complex problems in client care, documents findings and progress in electronic record.
Consults with physicians and other healthcare providers to communicate patient progress.
Ensures patient/family preparation for care across continuum prioritizing for high risk, chronically ill, complex, medically fragile patients.
Demonstrates critical thinking skills by synthesizing multiple data elements to evaluate and achieve optimal patient outcomes.
Assimilates and applies research/evidence-based practice information that supports improved patient care outcomes.
Collaborates as a member of unit leadership to achieve effective nursing operations:
Leads and or actively participates in daily quality huddles
Formally coaches and reinforces identified behaviors and established expectations related to nursing practice
Leads, supports and participates in shared governance activities
Identifies and substantiates resources needed for optimal patient care.
Looks for opportunities to reduce costs and waste
Leads clinical practice at the unit level to achieve unit quality improvement and outcome-based initiatives.
Initiates unit-based system reviews such as learning from defects and participate in root cause analyses to improve the quality of patient care delivery; critically evaluates and anticipates risks to patient safety.
Supports the clinical and professional development of nursing colleagues through mentoring, coaching and role modeling, including residency program and project development.