Clinical Nurse Specialist
5 days ago
The University of Michigan is seeking a highly skilled Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our team in the Adult Psychiatry and Pulmonary Medicine department. As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will be responsible for providing expert clinical leadership to the nursing staff, developing and implementing evidence-based care strategies, and collaborating with the multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes.
Responsibilities- Provide expert clinical leadership to the nursing staff in the Adult Psychiatry and Pulmonary Medicine department.
- Develop and implement evidence-based care strategies to improve patient outcomes.
- Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to design, implement, and measure safe, cost-effective, evidence-based care strategies.
- Maintain current professional knowledge and competencies, and contribute to the advancement of the practice of nursing at the unit/system, local, state, and national levels.
- Lead clinical practice and quality improvement initiatives for the unit or program.
- Collaborate with nurses to develop practice environments that support shared decision-making.
- Assist staff in developing critical thinking and clinical judgment through formal rounds, informal, and daily habits in bedside consultation, activity, and procedural progression.
- Create a nursing care environment that stimulates continuous self-learning, reflective practice, feeling of ownership, and demonstration of responsibility and accountability.
- Mentor nurses to acquire new skills, develop their careers, and effectively incorporate evidence into practice.
- Model advanced communication and therapeutic interventions in interviews, evaluations, patient-family assessments, and high-performance team conversations within urgent and planned care conferences.
- Provide input for staff evaluation.
- Provide formal and informal education for nurses and other health professionals and health professional students.
- Lead 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.
- Analyze data from quality reports, incidents, consultations, and care conferences to present trends and patterns indicative of substantial quality improvement initiatives and requirements for education and mentorship.
- Completion of an accredited graduate-level Clinical Nurse Specialist Program.
- Master's degree in nursing with a clinical focus is required.
- Adult/Gerontology-focused national board certification as a Clinical Nurse Specialist recognized by NCSBN.
- Current RN licensure to practice nursing and CNS certification in the State of Michigan is required.
- Psychiatric nursing experience within the last five (5) years.
- Experience in behavioral health.
- Experience with the State of Michigan mental health code.
- Experience with recipient rights.
- Knowledge of the Joint Commission regulations pertaining to behavioral health.
- Ability to function independently and as a team member is desired.
- Demonstrated ability to consistently, and positively, contribute to a group/unit work setting is desired.
- Demonstrated ability to consistently work collaboratively with the manager and leadership team is desired.
- Excellent written and verbal skills as evidenced by positive feedback through references and/or evaluations are desired.
- High level of self-motivation to stay current in a rapidly changing environment is desired.
- Three (3) or more years designing, and collaborating with, the implementation of competency and education activities for nursing staff including competency programs, orientation, staff and professional development is desired.
- Strong teaching skills as evidenced by the ability to demonstrate a teachable moment, as well as, develop class content, and staff and patient education materials is desired.
- Demonstrated ability to innovatively lead complex change projects, particularly those focused on raising patient care to the highest standards, in an academic, tertiary care environment is desired.
- Demonstrated analytical skills necessary to gather and collate data to present recommendations for solutions to identified problems is desired.
- Demonstrated ability to apply evidence-based clinical knowledge into the patient care setting via protocols, standards, and outcomes measurement is desired.
- Demonstrated knowledge of, and experience with, the Continuous Quality Improvement process, including recent experience implementing keystone quality improvement initiatives is desired.
- Previous experience as principle or co-investigator on a research project(s) is desired.
- Experience in implementation of service initiatives at the unit level is desired.
- Demonstrated professional writing experience and being published in professional periodicals is desired.
- Eligible for appointment with the School of Nursing is desired.
- Competence with basic computer functions is desired.
Hours per week: 40
Shift: Day shift primarily, flexible work hours required to meet needs of staff
Location: University Hospital: Adult Psychiatry (9C) and Pulmonary Medicine (6C)
Union AffiliationThis position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the Michigan Nurses Association and the U-M Professional Nurse Council union, which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.
Background ScreeningMichigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third-party administrator to conduct background screenings.
Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act.
Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.
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