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Clinical Nurse Specialist Psych Emphasis Inpatient Clackamas, OR

Advanced practice nursing role with the emphasis on clinical expertise. The role encompasses the five sub role components: Clinical practice, research, education, leadership and consultation. Application of these roles can be found in the following Spheres of Influence: Patient/family, nurse/nursing, system/organization.
Essential Functions:
- Clinical Practice: Assesses and develops interventions for complex, high risk patient within a specialty area
- Education: Uses the Nursing Process Model to incorporate Evidence Based Practice into staff development and patient/family education to improve patient/family outcomes in area of specialty
- Research: Facilitates outcomes research and translates evidence for practice in area of specialty
- Consultation: Provides expert clinical consultation and recommendations, internal and external to Kaiser Permanente, within the clinical specialty
- Leadership: Aligns nursing and patient care initiatives with the Kaiser Permanente mission, values and the KP promise
- Acts under the scope for Oregon CNS (OSBN Division 54)
Clinical Activities
- Assist with review of patients with Psychiatric diagnosis regarding medication management, care planning, and behavioral health management.
- Follow patients in alcohol and drug withdrawal to assure medical management is being utilized appropriately by nursing staff to prevent or minimize delirium, and withdrawal
- Assist with discharge planning and plans for the day with nursing and medical staff
- Leadership/Coordination Activities:
- Coordinate and conduct orientation of staff to care of behavioral, psychiatric, geriatric and med surgpatients
- Coordinate Critical Incident debriefing after patients and staff involved in violent incidents, falls, etc
- Education and mentoring of staff on care of difficult patients within specialty area
- Liasion to Brookside staff for patient issues, education and support to KSMC
- Assist with other complex issues such as inadequate grief management, etc
- Competent in care of medical, surgical, behavioral, psychiatric patients
- Lifting and carrying:
- Able to lift and carry at least 40 pounds
- May assist in the movement of patients and/or equipment whose weight may range from 100-300 pounds
- Bending: able to bend up to 60 times per shift, at both the waist and knees
- Walking: able to stand and/or walk for entire shift. Able to walk a distance of three to five miles during course of a shift
- Able to push/pull weights 100-300 pounds with assistance
- Standing: able to stand six to eight hours per shift


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- 3 years of specialty clinical experience
- 3 years experience with care of specialty care patients
- 3 years experience with care of medical surgical patients
- Graduate of accredited School of Nursing
- Master's in Nursing in area of specialization/Nursing
- Must have current Oregon RN license upon hire
- Must obtain BLS with AED Certification within 30 days of hire

Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 years of management experience
- 5 years of recent education experience
- 5 years of recent clinical experience in specialty
- Completion of Clinical Nurse Specialist program in area of specialty
- National certification as a Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Active in professional association
Experience in CNS role
- Certification
- Leadership experience
- Active in professional association
- Experience in teaching
- Experience in research
- Experience in addiction medicine

Salary Range: $37.45 - $67.35

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