Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

An Opportunity to Join our Remarkable Care Team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist awaits YOU!!!!

Trinity Health Livonia is a beautiful full-service, 304-bed acute care hospital, located in Livonia, MI, that provides comprehensive care, including a 24-hour emergency department, general medicine, inpatient and outpatient surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, intensive care unit, cancer, cardiology, geriatrics and birthing and women's health. Through several major expansions in the hospital, programs and services, Trinity Health Livonia continues to offer the latest in quality health and medical services. Trinity Health Livonia has received numerous awards recognizing excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety, financial performance and efficiency.

SUMMARY:

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) functions as an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) within three spheres of influence (i.e. direct patient care, nursing-nursing practice, and organization-system leadership) to integrate care across the continuum. Although each sphere possesses its own distinct focus, the three together are interrelated and contain elements that overlap. The primary goal of the CNS is to promote the continuous improvement of nursing care and patient outcomes.

Direct Patient Care

• Applies the nursing process at an expert level to assess, diagnose, and treat the complex responses of individuals, families, or groups to actual or potential health problems.
• Conducts comprehensive, holistic wellness and illness assessments using established or innovative evidence-based techniques, tools, and methods.
• Identifies and prioritizes nursing care needs for a select population of patients/families.
• Collaborates with the inter-professional team to integrate the nursing perspective into a comprehensive plan of care for the patient/family.
• Provides advanced nursing care to selected patients, families, or groups across the health care continuum in collaboration with the health care team.
• Initiates and plans care conferences or programs for individual patients or populations of patients.
• Designs and evaluates innovative educational tools or programs for patients, families, and groups.
• Identifies, collects, and analyzes data that serve as a basis for program design and outcome management.
• Establishes methods to evaluate and document nursing interventions.
• Evaluates the impact of nursing interventions on fiscal and human resources.
• Serves as an expert resource for the latest evidence supporting cost-effective and safe nursing practices in a population