Clinical Nurse Specialist - Plymouth, MN, United States - Allina Health

Description

Emergency Department CDART

Administration Shift:
Day (United States of America)

Shift Length:
8 hour shift
Hours Per Week:

40

Union Contract:

Non-Union Weekend Rotation:

Provides assessment, triaging, treatment planning, documentation and a variety of healthcare services to patients with comprehensive care needs, in a specialty population.

Collaborates with multidisciplinary professionals to integrate nursing interventions into a comprehensive plan of care to enhance patient outcome. Partners with unit leaders to educate staff and other health providers to enhance patient outcomes. Services as a liaison between other departments, clinics and applicable community resources. This position will support nursing practice and quality improvement activities in the emergency departments of Abbott Northwestern and WestHealth. It will also support system policy standardization and the spread of best practices throughout the Allina Health system.
Participates in Patient/Client care
Synthesizes assessment data, draws conclusion about individual or aggregate patient problems related to nursing interventions.
Formulations appropriate differential diagnosis, with plan of care to address complex, acute and chronic health care needs.
Develops and implements evidence-based nursing interventions.
Collaborates with multidisciplinary professionals to integrate nursing interventions into a comprehensive plan of care to enhance patient outcomes.

Facilitates patient transition between and within health care settings including discharge plans, patient follow-up in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.

Evaluates effects of nursing interventions for clinical effectiveness, patient responses, cost effectiveness and ethical considerations.
Evaluates Nursing Practice
Assesses patterns of outcomes related to nursing practice, drawing conclusions that may require change, maintenance or enhancement.
Anchors nursing practice to evidence-based information to achieve outcomes.

Evaluates the effect of change on clinical outcomes, nursing and other personnel satisfaction, and the collaboration with other disciplines.

Uses/designs system-level assessment methods and instruments to identify organization structures, functions and system-level variables that impact nursing practice and nurse-sensitive patient care outcomes.

Develops innovative solutions to nursing practice issues, leading nursing and multidisciplinary groups in implementing patient care programs.
Selects evaluation methods and instruments to identify system-level outcomes of programs of care.
Documents and disseminates outcomes of system-wide changes, impact of nursing practice, and Clinical Nurse Specialist work to stakeholders.
~ Advanced Practice Nursing degree (MNP or DNP) accepted in lieu of CNS program
~1+ year Emergency Department RN experience required
~ Licensed Registered Nurse - MN Board of Nursing required upon hire
~ Advanced practice certification in specialty APRN through MN Board of Nursing upon hire required

occasionally (*Allina Safe Patient Moving Policy), Up to 25 lbs.