Clinical Nurse Specialist Cardiac/CICU
Company: Nemours
Location: Wilmington
Posted on: June 24, 2022
Job Description:
The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is an advanced practice
nurse whose function is to improve outcomes in patient care, in
collaboration with nursing staff, the interdisciplinary team, and
organizational leaders. The CNS influences across three spheres-the
patient and family, nurses and nursing practice, and at the
organizational/systems level, while demonstrating competency in
leadership, clinical expertise, education, collaboration,
consultation, research and evidence-based practice, coaching and
mentoring, and ethical decision-making and advocacy
- Clinical judgment : Models advanced assessment and
interpretation, implements nursing care, and evaluates outcomes for
patient populations.
- Facilitator of Learning: Demonstrates clinical expertise while
supporting clinical nurses to integrate new evidence into practice.
Provides education or teaching skills to clinical teams, patients
and family.
- Collaboration: Focuses on (and role models) interprofessional
team building and effective team functioning.
- Response to Diversity : Reviews alternative approaches and
implementing planned change to meet needs considering cultural,
social, family and system diversity.
- Clinical Inquiry: Interprets and uses research to evaluate
practice, and collaborates in research.
- Systems Thinking: Responsible for innovation and change in the
patient care system.Able to make connections within components.
- Advocacy/Moral Agency: Influences the negotiation of moral
dilemmas, allocating resources, directing patient care and access
to care.
- Caring Practices: Responds to subtle patient and family
changes: engages with each unique patient in a compassionate
manner.
Requirements:
- Active Delaware nursing license
- Active Delaware Advanced Practice Nurse (as a Clinical Nurse
Specialist) Licensure Required
- National Board Certification as a Pediatric Clinical Nurse
Specialist
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) upon hire
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing, MSN required
- Minimum 5 year related clinical experience
Keywords: Nemours, Wilmington , Clinical Nurse Specialist Cardiac/CICU, Healthcare , Wilmington, Delaware
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