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Advanced Practice Nurse Leader

3 months ago

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Interior Health Authority Full time
Who are we seeking?

Interior Health Authority is in search of a Clinical Nurse Specialist.

What we provide:

  • Employee & Family Assistance Program
  • Employer sponsored training and educational opportunities
  • Paid vacation by the employer
  • Medical Services Plan
  • Employer covered insurance premiums
  • Comprehensive health and dental coverage
  • Municipal Pension Plan
  • Balance between work and personal life
The salary range for this role is $106,026 to $152,413. Interior Health determines salaries within this range based on the qualifications and experience of the candidate, along with an internal equity review of the salaries of other employees.

How will you contribute?

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) plays a pivotal role in enhancing knowledge, improving practices, and ensuring quality service in their specialty area through leadership, educational program development, research participation, and expert clinical consultation.

The CNS leads initiatives to enhance outcomes and quality of care by advancing nursing and interdisciplinary practices in their specialty through the application of advanced and evidence-based methodologies.

In collaboration with interdisciplinary team members, the CNS will spearhead the creation of frameworks and strategies to implement best practices in their specialty area. This encompasses evaluating research and monitoring, updating, and refining related standards, policies, and procedures.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist is an advanced practice nurse responsible for enhancing client, population, and health system outcomes by integrating knowledge, skills, and expertise in clinical care, research, leadership, consultation, education, and collaboration.

The CNS operates both independently and in partnership with interdisciplinary team members across all facets of this role.

What will your responsibilities include?

Clinical Practice

The Clinical Nurse Specialist is an independent practitioner within their designated scope of practice, utilizing advanced clinical judgment to assess, intervene, and evaluate the clients they serve.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist employs expert knowledge, skills, and abilities to design, coordinate, and assess a collaborative care plan for complex and unpredictable clinical scenarios, focusing on optimizing health and quality of life for clients.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist delivers both direct and indirect care based on their specialized knowledge, practice context, and area of expertise.


  • Conducts thorough assessments using advanced nursing knowledge and skills for specific clients or practice situations.
  • Gathers data regarding the context and causes of conditions that can be addressed through CNS interventions.
  • Analyzes the intricate interplay of sociological, psychological, and physiological processes, along with health determinants and clients' experiences, to develop, implement, evaluate, and modify care plans.
  • Identifies actual or potential risks to client safety, autonomy, and quality of care based on assessments and client/population validation.
  • Examines patterns of client responses and needs within a complex population, developing strategies for unit-based, organization-based, and system-based improvements to enhance health-care outcomes.
  • Synthesizes assessment data using advanced knowledge, experience, critical thinking, clinical inquiry, and judgment to formulate a care plan.
  • Designs care plans for clients with highly complex and often unpredictable needs.
  • Utilizes clinical inquiry to determine the need for reassessment, align interventions with underlying causes, and select appropriate evaluation methods.
  • Employs various communication and counseling techniques suited to specific and complex clinical and team situations.
  • Provides consultations in intricate clinical scenarios requiring advanced specialized knowledge and skills.
  • Continuously measures indicators such as quality of life, client safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, efficacy, client-centered care, cost-effectiveness, and appropriateness.
  • Facilitates knowledge translation in clinical settings to support care plans in complex situations.
  • Collaborates with clients and relevant inter-professional team members to achieve optimal health outcomes.
  • Advocates for client-centered care to address their needs in complex situations.
  • Coordinates healthcare to ensure safe and seamless transitions among care points in complex scenarios.
Systems Leadership

The Clinical Nurse Specialist is a leader in nursing.

Systems leadership encompasses the ability to manage change and influence clinical practices and political processes within and across systems, advocating for the importance of access to care and advanced nursing services to clients, nurses, other health professionals, the public, legislators, and policymakers.


  • Facilitates inter-professional collaboration both internally and externally to achieve desired client outcomes.
  • Leads the development and implementation of
  • Standards of nursing practice,
  • Practice guidelines,
  • Educational strategies,
  • Quality management,
  • Research initiatives, and/or system change.
  • Critically evaluates socio-political, demographic, and economic issues, trends, and policies, contributing to the political process to influence change for optimizing health outcomes.
  • Integrates client perspectives during policy development and planning.
  • Champions initiatives that promote professional growth, continuous learning, and collaborative practice among nurses and other healthcare team members to ensure client safety and quality of care.
  • Fosters a culture of learning, quality, and safety through mentorship, role modeling, and coaching of nurses, other healthcare team members, and students.
  • Utilizes knowledge of existing resources and the cost-effectiveness of interventions to inform resource decisions at practice, organizational, and system levels.
  • Implements strategies to achieve intended nurse-sensitive client outcomes for defined populations.
  • Leads the integration of the CNS role within the healthcare team, organization, and broader health system.
  • Applies advanced nursing knowledge and skills to communicate, negotiate, and build coalitions to manage change and resolve conflicts.
  • Navigates complex relationships at individual, practice setting, and organizational levels to optimize client outcomes.
  • Identifies potential and existing gaps in clinical care to influence client and organizational decision-making and change.
  • Anticipates future changes (e.g., needs related to technology, systems, professional development) and recommends and implements appropriate actions.
  • Identifies needs and advocates for necessary human, material, and organizational resources for safe client care.
  • Develops and leads strategies to promote the uptake of evidence-informed practices to optimize identified client outcomes.
  • Participates in key quality and safety initiatives with both internal and external partners from micro to macro levels and vice versa.
  • Evaluates gaps and operational issues at organizational and community levels to contribute to innovative solutions.
  • Collaborates in strategic program planning and evaluation to foster innovative care for specific client populations.
Advancement of Nursing Practice

The Clinical Nurse Specialist leads and nurtures the professional development of RNs and nursing practices to maximize the scope and depth of practice, resulting in optimal client outcomes.


  • Exemplifies professionalism and accountability in all interactions within the healthcare team.
  • Advocates for and implements changes to create safe and healthy workplace environments.
  • Promotes and implements changes that enhance the development of RNs in their roles.
  • Assesses nursing practice against established benchmarks and evidence-informed standards.
  • Engages in reflective practice to ensure adherence to professional standards.
  • Enhances nursing practice through mentoring, role modeling, consultation, and education.
  • Incorporates knowledge from ongoing learning to inform, evaluate, and advance nursing practice.
  • Disseminates knowledge from continuous learning to advance practice at local, regional, and national levels.
  • Promotes the CNS role through involvement in academic pursuits, professional associations, and special-interest groups.
  • Builds capacity and succession planning by mentoring RNs to pursue graduate studies focused on acquiring CNS competencies.
  • Advocates for the relevance of the CNS to educators, policymakers, administrative decision-makers, regulators, other healthcare providers, and the public.
  • Identifies and develops indicators for measuring and evaluating the CNS role.
  • Promotes ethical nursing practice by fostering strong moral climates in practice settings.
Evaluation and Research

As a knowledge translator, the Clinical Nurse Specialist seeks, critiques, interprets, synthesizes, utilizes, and disseminates evidence in clinical practice and for quality improvement and client safety initiatives.

Development and evaluation of programs and services at various levels are often key drivers behind the Clinical Nurse Specialist's practice.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist may act as an investigator or collaborate with other healthcare team members or community partners to identify, conduct, or support research that enhances or benefits nursing practice.


  • Evaluates and critiques current practices against the best available evidence/benchmarks.
  • Assesses the need for practice improvements to promote safe, effective, and reliable care positively impacting client and system outcomes.
  • Employs systematic approaches to redesign care delivery to enhance safety, effectiveness, and reliability.
  • Utilizes research and outcome data to formulate, evaluate, and/or revise policies, procedures, protocols, client-specific programs, and standards of care.
  • Adds value by addressing identified research practice gaps and opportunities through relevant evidence.
  • Integrates new evidence into practice settings and specific client populations.
  • Ensures ethical standards are upheld in practice environments during research and quality improvement initiatives.
  • Implements and evaluates quality management processes.
  • Identifies and incorporates relevant data for quality improvement.
  • Employs research principles to address clinical questions impacting client outcomes.
  • Utilizes diverse strategies to encourage healthcare teams to engage in clinical inquiry.
  • Leads and participates in research initiatives that facilitate the generation of new evidence.
  • Engages in outcome evaluation of nurse-sensitive indicators.
Performs additional duties as assigned.

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