Clinical Nurse Specialist RN - NICU

Clinical Nurse Specialist RNThe Clinical Nurse Specialist role at Kaiser Permanente Southern California Region is a clinical manager who partners with the operational manager to ensure that nursing staff delivers safe and effective care. The role is built around the five role subcomponents as regulated by the California Board of Registered Nursing: Leadership, Consultation, Research, Education, and Clinical Practice. Essential responsibilities include developing area of specialty competency criteria for outcome monitoring of the staff, assisting in interviewing staff and providing input into evaluations regarding clinical competence, conducting cost/benefit analysis of new clinical technologies resulting in recommendations for implementation and budgets, providing coaching and counseling to the nursing staff and other health care providers, participating as a part of management in providing 24 hour clinical leadership by developing standards of practice, policies and procedures for a specialty patient population that are consistent with professional practice standards, partnering with fellow clinical and operational managers in implementing methods and processes in specialty area to support change in nursing practice, care programs and clinical innovation achieving improved patient/family outcomes, evaluating clinical practice in areas of specialty to ensure community/professional standards are met, managing high risk patients in the area of specialty in order to achieve safe, high quality, cost effective outcomes for the system, rounding with the multi-disciplinary team in specialty area (any setting & includes community needs assessments), evaluating policies and procedures for clinical nursing practice in specialty area integrating the evidence from systematic reviews, facilitating multidisciplinary collaboration based on clinical needs of patient/family related to specialty area, participating in outcomes research/evidence based practice projects, identifying clinical quality indicators for specialty populations, conducting systematic reviews in a specialty area. Implements methods & processes in area of specialty to sustain change in nursing practice, programs of care, and clinical innovation, active involvement with specialty specific professional organizations as evidenced by participation on the professional organization leadership and operational groups (such as Committees) and/or participation at professional conferences, developing, implementing/coordinating, and evaluating specialty education programs for patient and families, developing, implementing/coordinating, and evaluating specialty training programs for nursing staff, including nurses in the communities, leading multi-disciplinary project teams, developing, implementing and evaluating successful projects using scientific operations management principles and methodologies, investigating and resolving patient/family/member concerns regarding the delivery of nursing care, developing, monitoring, and supervising policies that integrate business and organization plans in operations, ensuring that patient care and quality standards meet and comply with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements and established departmental policy and procedures, utilization, and clinical performance standards and measures. Specific for Comprehensive Strokes Centers: Support delivery of evidence-based acute stroke assessment and management, provide expert nursing consultation and practice oversight, develop and deliver acute stroke continuing education programs, participate in performance improvement (PI) processes, participate in comprehensive stroke center research.