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CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST (CNS)- Adult Psychiatry (9C) & Pulmonary Medicine (6C)
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**Job Summary**
The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be responsible for providing expert clinical leadership to the nursing staff on the Adult Psychiatry unit and the Pulmonary Medicine unit within Michigan Medicine.
**Mission Statement**
Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.
**Why Join Michigan Medicine?**
Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan medicine is comprised of over 26,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world's most distinguished academic health systems. In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.
**What Benefits can you Look Forward to?**
Nursing at Michigan offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits!
**Hourly range for Clinical Nurse Specialist $48.58-$73.39 / hour**
The benefit package includes:
Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage
2:1 Match on retirement savings and immediate vesting
Generous Paid Time Off Allowances
Robust Tuition and Certification support programs
Large offering of no cost CEs and professional development for advancement
**Responsibilities***
The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is the clinical leader for a program or area of nursing practice within Michigan Medicine. The advanced knowledge and skills required for this role include clinical expertise in a focus area, evidence-based practice, collaboration, consultation, education, mentoring, and change leadership. These are essential to advance the practice of nursing and the professional development of nurses. The specialized knowledge and skills are used within three major areas of focus: patient/family, nurses and nursing practice, and the organization/system. The CNS and the Clinical Nursing Director are partners in leading the nursing clinical practice area. The CNS coordinates and guides clinical activities/projects of nurses within a practice area. The CNS is accountable for collaborating with members of the health care team to design, implement, and measure safe, cost-effective, evidence-based care strategies. The CNS is responsible for maintaining current professional knowledge and competencies and contributing to the advancement of the practice of nursing at the unit/system, local, state and/or national and international level.
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Direct Patient Care
Serves as a reliable source of information on the latest evidence supporting cost-effective, safe nursing practices.
Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team using the nursing process to integrate the nursing perspective into a comprehensive plan of care for the patient/family.
Identifies and prioritizes nursing care needs for a select population of patients/families. This includes synthesis of assessment data, advanced knowledge, experience to pose problems amenable to advanced interventions.
Conducts comprehensive, holistic wellness and illness assessments using established or innovative evidence-based techniques, tools, and methods.
Initiates and plans care conferences or programs for individual patients or populations of patients. Calls for interdisciplinary care conferences when barriers or LOS protraction are evident or predicted.
Assists the team and individual nurses to establish working goals and targets, and measures to be assessed and documented as evidence of progress in plan of care. Establishes intervention families within standards of care that are best united for best effects.
Designs and evaluates innovative educational programs for patients, families, and groups.
Establishes methods to evaluate and document nursing interventions at the individual, unit, cluster and professional practice model level.
Evaluates the impact of nursing interventions on fiscal and human resources including establishing average and variance economics of plans of care for major populations and targeted conditions.
Nursing/Nursing Practice
Collaborates with others to resolve issues related to patient care, communication, policies, and resources.
Creates and revises nursing policies, protocols and procedures using evidence-based information to achieve outcomes for indicators that are nurse-sensitive.
Identifies facilitators and addresses barriers that affect patient outcomes.
Leads clinical practice and quality improvement initiatives for a unit or a program.
Collaborates with nurses to develop practice environments that support shared decision-making.
Assists the staff in developing critical thinking and clinical judgment through formal rounds, informal and daily habits in bedside consultation, activity and procedural progression likely in plan of day and plan of stay.
Creates a nursing care environment that stimulates continuous self-learning, reflective practice, feeling of ownership and demonstration of responsibility and accountability.
Collaborates with Educational Nurse Specialists, Educational Nurse Coordinators and others on content and operational design of orientation, clinical competency, and other clinical educational program development.
Mentors nurses to acquire new skills, develop their careers and effectively incorporate evidence into practice. Assists with the specific development of portfolios that demonstrate navigational way to achieve mastery in daily care activities, reading and literature reviews.
Models advanced communication and therapeutic interventions in interviews, evaluation, patient- family assessments and high performance team conversation within urgent and planned care conferences.
Provides input for staff evaluation.
Provides formal and informal education for nurses and other health professionals and health professional students.
Leads in the conduct and utilization of nursing research as well as evaluation of daily work process mapping required to insert the evidence and remove activities of less value.
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Compensation Information:
$48.58 / Hourly - $48.58 / Hourly
Starting At: 48.58 Hourly
Up To: 73.39 Hourly
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