Nurse Specialist

Job Summary:

Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human response to actual or potential health problems. This includes establishing an intentional therapeutic relationship between a registered nurse and a patient and family. As a leader and the integrator of care, the professional nurse has the responsibility, authority, and accountability for planning, coordinating and evaluating the patient's care needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assessment:
  • Collects, prioritizes and synthesizes comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation.
  • Uses appropriate evidence-based assessment techniques and instruments in data collection.
• Diagnosis:
  • Analyzes assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses.
  • Validates and communicates nursing diagnoses with the patient, family and other healthcare team members.
• Outcomes Identification:
  • Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient.
  • Establishes, in collaboration with the family, patient, realistic and measurable patient expected outcomes based on nursing diagnoses, patients present and potential capabilities, goals, available resources and plan for continuity of care.
• Planning:
  • Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
  • Develops an individualized plan considering patient characteristics or the situation as appropriate in conjunction with the patient, family and others.
• Implementation:
  • Implements the identified plan.
  • Implements interventions in a safe, timely, appropriate manner.
• Evaluation:
  • Evaluates the patient's progress towards attainment of the outcome.
  • Utilizes systematic and ongoing assessment data to revise diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care.

Requirements:

• Associate's or Vocational degree required.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Licensed Registered Nurse - MN Board of Nursing required if working in the state of MN upon hire or Licensed Registered Nurse - WI Dept of Safety & Professional Services required if working in the state of WI upon hire.
• BLS Tier 1 - Basic Life Support - Multisource required by completion of orientation.
• ACLS/BLS Tier 2-Advanced Cardiac Life Support - Multisource required.
• ACLS/BLS Tier 3 - Allina Health preferred will be eventually required at most sites.

Physical Demands:

Medium Work*: Lifting weight Up to 32 lbs. occasionally (*Allina Safe Patient Moving Policy), Up to 25 lbs. frequently.