Daily Responsibilities for a Clinical Nurse Specialist
The Clinical Nurse Specialist intervenes at the patient/family, the nurse, and at the systems level. In collaboration with the health care team, the Clinical Nurse Specialist provides expert family-centered clinical care and clinical consultation within her/his area of expertise to improve outcomes and to promote integrated health care that is safe, equitable, timely, effective, and efficient. The CNS achieves this by providing direct and indirect care to patients and their families, promoting professional development, disseminating and conducting research and contributing to and leading clinical policy and procedure development and revision.

Responsibilities:

• Clinical judgment: Models advanced assessment and interpretation, implements nursing care, and evaluates outcomes for patient populations.
• Facilitator of Learning: Demonstrates clinical expertise while supporting clinical nurses to integrate new evidence into practice. Provides education or teaching skills to clinical teams, patients, and families.
• Collaboration: Focuses on (and role models) interprofessional team building and effective team functioning.
• Response to Diversity: Reviews alternative approaches and implementing planned change to meet needs considering cultural, social, family, and system diversity.
• Clinical Inquiry: Interprets and uses research to evaluate practice and collaborates in research.
• Systems Thinking: Responsible for innovation and change in the patient care system. Able to make connections within components.
• Advocacy/Moral Agency: Influences the negotiation of moral dilemmas, allocating resources, directing patient care and access to care.
• Caring Practices: Responds to subtle patient and family changes: engages with each patient compassionately.

Requirements for Clinical Nurse Specialist

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing, MSN required
• Minimum 5 years of related clinical experience
• Active Delaware (or compact state) Registered Nurse Licensure Required
• Active Delaware (or compact state) Advanced Practice Nurse (as a Clinical Nurse Specialist) Licensure Required
• Board Certification as a Clinical Nurse Specialist required

Hours For This Position

• Full Time M-F Days

Are you interested in being considered for this Nurse Practitioner Role?

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How to Refer a Qualified Candidate:

• Send our team the details of your referral. We will contact them and identify appropriate opportunities for their career goals and interests.
• For each referral, you can earn a $1,000 referral bonus.

Pivotal Placement Services, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state, or federal law.