Clinical Practice Specialist- Nursing Professional Practice (Full Time)

Job Specific Duties

• Reviews incident reports, implements evidenced-based action plans, and monitors results to drive efficiencies in clinical and operational excellence. 
• Provides timely mentoring and coaching to clinical staff supervising the quality of nursing care. 
• Leads the supervision and collaborative integration of evidence-based practice into nursing. Identifies gaps in practice and conducts literature reviews to make recommendations for best practice. 
• Develops manuscripts for publication and presents at nursing professional conferences. 
• Demonstrates effective supervision, knowledge, and application of Quality and Process Improvement principles and methodologies. 
• Keeps abreast of changing national standards of clinical practice and safety science literature.  Disseminates pertinent safety and specialty related information and contributes to the development and implementation of best practice guidelines .
• Identifies and develops clinical measures related to strategic plan for data collection report outcomes. 
• Supervises, mentors and engages staff in the development of Evidence Based Practice and research to influence quality of care and improve patient and nursing outcomes.
• Ensures parent education and diagnosis-related discharge planning. 
• Coordinates and maintains a portfolio of special stories/events to support Magnet and the nursing annual report. 
• Leads and supervises clinical practice and quality improvement initiatives. 
• Develops criteria for and evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice at the individual level. Shares and disseminates information within the department & across the institution., unit, and system. 
• Demonstrates knowledge and compliance with regulatory standards. 
• Provides input into relevant clinical policy and procedure development and implementation. 
• Engages in clinical and professional leadership activities such as nursing shared governance, hospital-based committees, community, regional and/or national organizations, and specialty-based program development; promotes customer service excellence by personal example. 
• Role models and promotes awareness and appropriate follow through to quality and/or safety issues; i.e. encourages staff to identify and report adverse events and near-misses, notifies manager/director, etc. 
• Designs, implements, and evaluates mechanisms to collect, track and disseminate data and collaborate with medical and nursing staff regarding strategies for performance improvement pertaining to designated indicators.