Requirements:

• Master's Degree in Nursing with clinical application of a CNS role component or Master's preparation with a post-master's certificate within 3 years of date of hire

• Minimum of 3 years continuous, recent clinical experience and clinical knowledge in specialty area

• 5 years experience in advanced practice nursing leadership, desired

• CNS Advanced Practice Certification, desired

 

About the Job:

• Provide expert, specialty consultation to patients, staff, and physicians.

• Collaborate with nursing and physicians on identifying and prioritizing nursing care needs for complex patients.

• Coordinate care of patients across settings through collaboration with applicable departments.

• Improve quality of nursing care by managing change and empowering others to influence clinical practice and political processes both within and across systems.

• Promote research through utilization of systematic inquiry in the interpretation, translation, and use of evidence to evaluate and improve clinical practice; participates in conduct of research.

• Provide mentoring and guidance to advance patient care and nursing practice.

• Identify, articulate, and take action on ethical concerns at all levels.

 

POSITION SUMMARY:

• The Clinical Nurse Specialist is an advanced practice nurse with master's or doctoral level preparation and expert knowledge in area of specialty.

• The CNS improves patient care using 3 spheres of influence: patients, nurses and nursing practice, and organizations and systems.

• The CNS is a clinical expert in evidence-based practice within a specialty area.

• The CNS influences outcomes by support of nurses in the delivery of high quality, safe, evidence-based care.