Clinical Nurse Specialist - Emergency Department
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Emergency Department
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19-07-2025
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The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) has a unique APRN role to integrate care across the continuum and through three spheres of influence: patient nurse system. The three spheres are overlapping and interrelated but each sphere possesses a distinctive focus. In each of the spheres of influence the primary goal of the CNS is continuous improvement of patient outcomes and nursing care. Key elements of CNS practice are to create environments through mentoring and system changes that empower nurses to develop caring evidence-based practices to alleviate patient distress facilitate ethical decision-making and respond to diversity. The CNS is responsible and accountable for diagnosis and treatment of health/illness states disease management health promotion and prevention of illness and risk behaviors among individuals families groups and communities (APRN Joint Dialogue Group Report July 7 2008).Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions
- Coaching Competency: Provide skillful guidance and teaching to advance the care of patients families groups of patients and the profession of nursing.
- Consultation and Collaboration Competency: Demonstrate patient staff or system focused interaction between professionals in which the consultant is recognized as having specialized expertise and assists consultee with problem solving. Work jointly with others to optimize clinical outcomes. The CNS collaborates at an advanced level by committing to authentic engagement and constructive patient family system and population-focused problem solving.
- Ethical decision-making moral agency and advocacy: Identifying articulating and taking action on ethical concerns at the patient family health care provider system community and public policy levels.
- Expert Clinical Practice Competency: Provide direct interaction with patients families and groups of patients to promote health or well-being and improve quality of life. Characterized by a holistic perspective in the advanced nursing management of health illness and disease states.
- Research/EBP Competence: Actively engage in thorough and systematic inquiry. Includes the search for interpretation and use of evidence in clinical practice and quality improvement to address clinical problem as well as active participation in the conduct of research.
- Systems Leadership Competency: Demonstrates ability to manage change and empower others to influence clinical practice and political processes both within and across systems.
- Must be able to perform the professional clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
- These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.
Required Education and Experience
- High School Graduate
- Bachelor Degree Nursing
- Master Degree Nursing OR Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP)
Required Licensure and Certification
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist Certification (ACNS-BC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Must meet the requirements for ARNP-CNS Licensure in Kansas
- Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Multi-State - State Board of Nursing Registered Nurse in State of Kansas
As a condition of your employment and continued employment with the health system you are required to secure a Nurse Compact License (NCL) within 60 days of your date of hire. This will enable you to perform your job duties not only in Kansas but other compact states. You will be responsible for any expenses you incur in securing this license and must provide your manager with evidence of this license before the sixty-day period expires. If you fail to secure the NCL as required you will be immediately removed from the work schedule and placed on an unpaid administrative leave until we can understand the reasons for your non-compliance. Further failure to comply with the licensing requirement will result in your end of employment with the health system. - Respirator Fit Test - The University of Kansas Health System (TUKHS) upon Hire
Time Type:
Full timeJob Requisition ID:
R-44839We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a persons race color religion sex (including pregnancy gender identity and sexual orientation) national origin ancestry age (40 or older) disability veteran status or genetic information.
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