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Interior Health is hiring a Clinical Nurse Specialist for a regional position within MHSU Transformation, where you will provide clinical expertise to IH MHSU Substance Use Bed-Based Services, including supporting Road to Recovery and withdrawal management services. This role offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of transforming and improving the substance use bed-based system of care, making a significant impact on patient outcomes and regional healthcare practices. Knowledge and experience in withdrawal management services are highly valued. If you are passionate about driving positive change and enhancing substance use management, we encourage you to apply.
- This position offers a flexible work location within the Interior Health region.
- Employee & Family Assistance Program
- Employer paid training/education opportunities
- Employer paid vacation
- Medical Services Plan
- Employer paid insurance premiums
- Extended health & dental coverage
- Municipal Pension Plan
- Work-life balance
Salary range for the position is $106,026 to $152,413. Interior Health establishes salaries within the minimum and maximum of the salary range based on consideration of the qualifications, experience of the applicant, and an internal equity review of the salaries of other employees.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) contributes to the development of knowledge, the ongoing improvement of practice, and quality service in the area of specialty through the demonstration of leadership; The CNS provides leadership and focuses on improving outcomes and quality of care by advancing nursing and interdisciplinary practice in the area of specialty through the use of advanced and evidence-based practice. In consultation with interdisciplinary team members, the CNS will take a lead role in developing frameworks and strategies to facilitate the implementation of best practices for the area of specialty. This includes evaluating research and monitoring, updating, and revising related standards, policies, and procedures.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist is an advanced practice nurse accountable for improving client, population, and health system outcomes by integrating knowledge, skills, and expertise in clinical care, research, leadership, consultation, education, and collaboration. The Clinical Nurse Specialist uses advanced and expert knowledge, skills, and abilities to develop, coordinate, and evaluate a collaborative plan of care for highly complex and unpredictable clinical situations with the focus on optimizing health and quality of life for the client. The Clinical Nurse Specialist provides direct and indirect care on the basis of his or her specialty knowledge, practice context and specialty area.
- Conducts comprehensive in-depth assessments using advanced nursing knowledge and skills for specific clients, nursing practice situations, or systems.
- Collects data about the context and etiology of conditions that are amenable to CNS interventions.
- Analyzes the complex interaction of sociological, psychological, physiological processes, determinants of health, and clients’ lived experiences to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise plans of care.
- Differentiates actual or potential risks to client safety, autonomy, and quality of care on the basis of assessment and client/population validation.
- Analyzes patterns of client responses and needs within a complex population and develops strategies to create unit-based, organization-based, and system-based changes to optimize health-care outcomes.
- Synthesizes the assessment data using advanced knowledge, experience, critical thinking, clinical inquiry, and clinical judgment to develop a plan of care.
- Designs care plans for clients with highly complex and often unpredictable needs.
- Uses a variety of communication and counselling techniques applicable to specific and highly complex and often unpredictable clinical and team situations.
- Measures indicators such as quality of life, client safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, efficacy, client-centered care, cost effectiveness, and appropriateness on a continuous basis.
- Facilitates knowledge translation in a clinical setting to support the care plan in highly complex and often unpredictable situations.
- Collaborates with clients and appropriate inter-professional team members within the clinical area to achieve optimal health outcomes.
- Advocates for client-centered care to meet their needs in highly complex and often unpredictable situations.
- Coordinates healthcare to facilitate safe and seamless transitions among points of care in highly complex and often unpredictable situations.
Systems Leadership
The Clinical Nurse Specialist is a nursing leader. Systems leadership includes the ability to manage change and influence clinical practice and political processes both within and across systems, including advocating for and promoting the importance of access to care and advanced nursing services to clients, nurses, other health professionals, the public, legislators, and policymakers.
- Leads the development and implementation of standards of nursing practice, practice guidelines, education strategies, quality management, research initiatives, and/or system change.
- Critically analyzes socio-political, demographic, and economic issues, trends, and policies and contributes to the political process to influence change for optimizing health outcomes.
- Integrates knowledge of clients’ perspective during policy development and planning.
- Leads initiatives to promote professional growth, continuous learning, and collaborative practice of nurses and other members of the health-care team to ensure client safety and quality of care.
- Fosters an organizational culture of learning, quality, and safety through preceptorship, role modelling; and coaching of nurses, other members of the health-care team, and students.
- Leads the implementation and integration of the CNS role within the health-care team, organization, and broader health system.
- Applies advanced nursing knowledge and skills to communicate, negotiate, and build coalitions to manage change to resolve conflict.
- Recognizes potential and existing gaps in clinical care to influence client and organizational decision-making and change.
- Identifies needs and advocates for the necessary human, material, and organizational system resources for safe client care.
- Participates in key quality and safety initiatives with both internal and external partners from the micro to the macro level and vice versa.
- Evaluates gaps and operational issues at the organizational and community levels to contribute to the development of innovative solutions.
- Collaborates in the development of strategic program planning and evaluation to foster innovative care for specific client populations.
Advancement of Nursing Practice
The Clinical Nurse Specialist leads and fosters the professional development of RNs and nursing practice to maximize the scope and depth of practice leading to optimal client outcomes.
- Models professionalism and accountability in all interactions within the health-care team.
- Evaluates nursing practice against established benchmarks and evidence-informed practice standards.
- Improves nursing practice through mentoring, role modelling, consultation, and education.
- Incorporates knowledge from continuous learning to inform, evaluate, and advance nursing practice.
- Disseminates knowledge from continuous learning to advance practice at the local, regional, and national level.
- Promotes the role of the CNS through involvement in academic pursuits, professional associations, and special-interest groups.
- Builds capacity and succession planning by mentoring RNs to pursue graduate studies with a focus on acquiring CNS competencies.
- Promotes the role and the relevance of the CNS to educators, policymakers, administrative decision-makers, regulators, other health-care providers, and the public.
- Promotes ethical nursing practice through the development of strong moral climates in the practice setting.
Evaluation and Research
As a knowledge translator, the Clinical Nurse Specialist searches for, critiques, interprets, synthesizes uses, and disseminates evidence in clinical practice and for quality improvement and client safety initiatives. The Clinical Nurse Specialist acts either as an investigator or as a collaborator with other members of the health-care team or community to identify, conduct, or support research that enhances or benefits nursing practice.
Evaluates the need for practice improvement to promote safe, effective, and reliable care that has a positive impact on client and system outcomes.Uses systematic approaches to redesign care delivery to promote safe, effective, and reliable care that has a positive impact on client and system outcomes.Uses research and outcome data to formulate, evaluate, and/or revise policies, procedures, protocols, client-specific programs, and client standards of care.Ensures that ethical standards are promoted and maintained in the practice environment when research and quality improvement initiatives are being conducted.Implements and evaluates quality management processes.Identifies and incorporates relevant data needed for quality improvement.Uses research principles to answer clinical questions to address the quality of client outcomes.Uses a wide range of strategies to encourage health-care teams to engage in clinical inquiry.In alignment with IH’s Occupational Health & Safety Program, employees shall adhere to all Occupational Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times and attend all required training. Employees are responsible to report any identified hazards, unsafe conditions or incidents to the manager or supervisor immediately.
Honouring Interior Health’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), and Pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, preferential consideration and/or hiring will be given to qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit).
