Clinical Support Nurse Specialist

2 weeks ago


Canterbury, Connecticut, United States Albany Medical Center Full time

Department/Unit: Float Pool

Work Shift: Night (United States of America)

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Clinical Support Nurse (CSN) plays a pivotal role by offering on-site expert guidance to Patient Care Services Staff in intricate patient care scenarios. The CSN is responsible for educating and empowering staff to acquire essential patient care competencies that necessitate further training, may require clinical certification, and are not readily available through unit-specific opportunities. Additionally, the CSN holds particular direct patient care duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Assist staff in enhancing clinical skills and resolving challenges in complex patient care situations.
2. Educate and support staff in initiating access and managing intravascular therapy.
3. Provide direct care in selected complex patient care scenarios.
4. Effectively negotiate to achieve consensus with staff and management.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
To excel in this role, an individual must successfully fulfill each essential duty as outlined in the attached annual competency assessment. Reasonable accommodations may be made, where feasible, to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the job's essential functions.

EDUCATION:
Graduate of a recognized professional nursing program. A Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or actively pursuing a BSN is preferred. Must hold a current RN Registration or a Limited Permit to practice in the State of New York.

EXPERIENCE:
A minimum of three years of recent acute care clinical experience in specific patient populations served.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
Effectively communicates with patients, family members, employees, and others. Actively listens and verifies and clarifies messages. Seeks input from others to achieve consensus. Applies problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills in communication. Utilizes Chain of Command as necessary to reach optimal outcomes. Reads and interprets documents such as Quality Reports and Hospital Policies and Procedures. Ensures that patient care is documented on established forms.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
Conducts responsibilities in adherence to the highest standards of ethical conduct as defined by Albany Medical Center and the tenets of the Professional Nursing Organization. Demonstrates conscientiousness in record-keeping. Exercises good judgment when performing job functions or interacting with others. Accepts direction, follows instructions, collaborates with others, and avoids unnecessary conflict. Adheres to Albany Medical Center's policies, standards, and practices, utilizing problem-solving processes for resolving grievances or disagreements. Anticipates and resolves potential issues to ensure the delivery of appropriate quality patient care. Pursues professional education to enhance job performance and maintains competency through required continuing education.

REASONING ABILITY:
Identifies problems, gathers data, establishes facts, and draws valid conclusions. Solves practical problems and addresses a variety of situations where only limited standardization exists. Interprets various instructions in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to probe, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, and speak and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to infectious materials and chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. This position requires that the majority of the time the employee be physically on-site, as the work cannot be performed remotely.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and/or abilities deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related instructions given by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.



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