Job Description:
The Clinical Nurse Specialist role at Client’s Company – Southern California Region is a clinical manager who partners with the operational manager to ensure that nursing staff delivers safe and effective care. The role is built around the five role subcomponents as regulated by the California Board of Registered Nursing: Leadership, Consultation, Research, Education, and Clinical Practice.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Develops area of specialty competency criteria for outcome monitoring of the staff.
- Assists in interviewing staff and provides input into evaluations regarding clinical competence, participating in the creation, implementation, and follow up of action plans for professional, competency development and recommending terminations when appropriate.
- Conducts cost/benefit analysis of new clinical technologies resulting in recommendations for implementation and budgets.
- Provides coaching and counselling to the nursing staff and other health care providers.
- Participates as a part of management in providing 24 hour clinical leadership by developing standards of practice, policies and procedures for a specialty patient population that are consistent with professional practice standards.
- Partners with fellow clinical and operational managers in implementing methods and processes in specialty areas to support change in nursing practice, care programs and clinical innovation achieving improved patient/family outcomes.
- Evaluates clinical practice in areas of specialty to ensure community/professional standards are met.
- Manages high risk patients in the area of specialty in order to achieve safe, high quality, cost effective outcomes for the system.
- Rounds with the multi-disciplinary team in specialty areas (any setting & includes community needs assessments).
- Evaluates policies and procedures for clinical nursing practice in specialty areas integrating the evidence from systematic reviews.
- Facilitates multidisciplinary collaboration based on clinical needs of patients/family related to specialty areas.
- Participates in outcomes research/evidence based practice projects.
- Identifies clinical quality indicators for specialty populations.
- Conducts systematic reviews in a specialty area. Implements methods & processes in the area of specialty to sustain change in nursing practice, programs of care, and clinical innovation.
- Active involvement with specialty specific professional organizations as evidenced by participation on the professional organization leadership and operational groups (such as Committees) and/or participation at professional conferences.
- Develops, implements/coordinates, and evaluates specialty education programs for patients and families.
- Develops, implements/coordinates, and evaluates specialty training programs for nursing staff, including nurses in the communities.
- Leads multi-disciplinary project teams.
- Develops, implements and evaluates successful projects using scientific operations management principles and methodologies.
- Investigates and resolves patient/family/member concerns regarding the delivery of nursing care.
- Develops, monitors, and supervises policies that integrate business and organization plans in operations.
- Ensures that patient care and quality standards meet and comply with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements and established departmental policy and procedures, utilization, and clinical performance standards and measures.
- Specific for Comprehensive Strokes Centers:
- Support delivery of evidence-based acute stroke assessment and management
- Provide expert nursing consultation and practice oversight
- Develop and deliver acute stroke continuing education programs
- Participate in performance improvement (PI) processes
- Participate in comprehensive stroke center research
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
Experience
- Minimum three (3) years of experience in the area of specialty required.
Education
- Clinical master’s degree in nursing, in the area of specialization.
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing.
License, Certification, Registration
- California Clinical Nurse Specialist Certification in area of specialty.
- Current California RN license.
- Current BLS certificate
Additional Requirements
- Demonstrated clinical expertise in area of specialty.
- Recent project management experience.
- Consistently demonstrates the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviours necessary to provide superior and culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, and to customers, contracted providers, and vendors.
- Must be able to work in a Labour/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Clinical Nurse Specialist experience preferred.
About Us:
Techaxis is a US-based firm that specializes in discovering, engaging, and placing top talent globally, for full-time or contract positions in leadership and mid to senior-level positions for companies in the technology, healthcare, energy, and education space.
Equal Opportunities Employers:
Our clients provide equal opportunities to all its employees and all qualified applicants for employment, without regard to their race, caste, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, sex, age, nationality, disability, and veteran status. Employees of our clients are treated with dignity and in accordance with their policy to maintain a work environment free of sexual harassment, whether physical, verbal, or psychological. Employee policies and practices are administered in a manner that would ensure that in all matters equal opportunity is provided to those eligible and the decisions are merit-based.