Clinical Nurse Practice Specialist

Park Nicollet is looking to hire a Clinical Nurse Practice Specialist to join our team! Come join us as a Partner for Good and help us make an impact on the care and experience that our patients and their families receive every day.

POSITION SUMMARY STATEMENT:

The Clinical Nurse Practice Specialist is a clinical leader for an area of nursing practice across Methodist and Regions Hospitals. The advanced knowledge and skills required include clinical expertise in a focus area, evidence-based practice, collaboration, education, mentoring, consultation and change leadership. This advanced nursing practice role is focused on influencing patient care, nursing practice and organizational change. This role attends to the needs of patients in a particular population wherever they may present along the continuum of care. This role coordinates complex patient care, evaluates patient care outcomes, utilizes, and conducts clinical research, provides professional consultation, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration. This role also develops tools (e.g., critical pathways, order sets, guidelines, protocols, and policies) which facilitate care rendered by others in basic practice. This role embeds evidence into clinical practice, provides leadership in quality improvement, and provides innovative solutions throughout the system.

Required Qualifications:

• Education, Experience or Equivalent Combination:
  
  
  
  • For areas with an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) specialty certification available: master's degree in nursing and completion of required education prerequisites to be licensed as an APRN, or completion within 3 years of date of hire.
  • For areas without an APRN specialty certification: DNP or completion within 3 years of date of hire. Three (3) years (6240 hours) clinical staff nursing in acute care or at least two (2) years (4160 hours) functioning in an APRN role.
  
  
• Licensure/ Registration/ Certification:
  
  
  
  • Maintain specialty certification as appropriate to the patient population served (i.e., BLS, ACLS, etc.) Licensed as a registered nurse by the State of Minnesota.
  • Licensed as an advanced practice register nurse where specialty certification is available.
  • Certified by a national nurse certification organization acceptable to the Minnesota Board of Nursing (CNS, NP, CNM) where specialty certification is available.
  
  
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  
  
  
  • Proven proficiency in the operation of the following: telephone, electronic health record, photocopier, FAX machine, personal computer utilizing work processing, spreadsheet, graphics package, VCR, slide projector, overhead projector and common patient care equipment related to key clinical areas.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Education, Experience or Equivalent Combination:
  
  
  
  • NA
  
  
• Licensure/ Registration/ Certification:
  
  
  
  • NA
  
  
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  
  
  
  • Knowledge of current nursing theories, practices, and techniques.
  • Knowledge of principles of growth and development over lifespan of patients served.
  • Knowledge of principles of adult learning and education methods.
  • Knowledge of dynamics of group process.
  • Knowledge of research process and scientific inquiry.
  • Skilled in leading groups and implementing change.
  • Skilled in critical thinking.
  • Skilled in working across the continuum of care.
  • Ability to apply advanced nursing practice in clinical care delivery.
  • Ability to identify educational needs, plan and implement transfer of knowledge.
  • Ability to assess and diagnoses needs and achieve outcomes.
  • Ability to perform effectively as part of a team as well as work independently.
  • Ability to take initiative.
  • Ability to respond and manage change.
  • Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
  • Ability to manage multiple simultaneous tasks and prioritize appropriately.
  
  

Benefits:

Park Nicollet offers a competitive benefits package (for eligible positions) that includes medical insurance, dental insurance, a retirement program, time away from work, insurance options, tuition reimbursement, an employee assistance program, onsite clinic and much more