Clinical Nurse Specialist - Medsurgical Unit (Hiring Immediately) - CHRISTUS Health

Description**

_**Summary:**_

to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.

Family Health Center.

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of

• Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing

• Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and

• Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments;

• Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given.
• Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members

andor care givers; identify issues and resources.

Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process

• Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial,

• Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members
• Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual

• Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and documents

• Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient

• Performs timely reassessment and documentation
• Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific

patient care need for the designated units patient population

• Anticipates and plans for admissiondischargetransfer needs to facilitate

• Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the

• Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating

orders to ensure accuracy

• Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a

• Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and

• Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing

• Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within

the industry

• Incorporates patient safety practicesguidelines to promote a safe

• Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement

• Provides evidence-based nursing care
• Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care
• Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within

• Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and

activities

• Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures
• Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational

• Provides feedback for improvement of procedures
• Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures
• Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques

• Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient

• Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating

• Describes the flow of information between various stations or units
• Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic

• Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracy
• Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale

across health care practices

• Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or

• Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment

• Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment
• Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order

• Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment

• Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of

• Describes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate,

• Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for correcting
• Explains considerations for entering and following standing orders
• Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and

considerations for each

• Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for

• Reviews patients’ charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts

• Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical staff
• Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and lessons learned
• Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with others

• Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or

• Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups

• Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family members
• Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of problems
• Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to self, versus

• Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses,

participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real-time

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred.
• 1 year of experience in the related nursing specialty preferred.
• RN License in state of employment or compact
• BLS required

**_Work Schedule:_

Varies

**_Work Type:_

Full Time

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