Description
SHIFT: No Weekends
SCHEDULE: Full-time
Good Samaritan Hospital isa 474 bed acute care hospital in the heart of Silicon Valley, with twolocations, the main campus in San Jose, California and the Mission Oaks campusin Los Gatos, California. It is one of only ten hospitals nationwide to beawarded the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of SurgeonsCommission on Cancer four consecutive times. Good Samaritan is a leader inneurosciences, high-risk obstetrics, advanced cardiology and innovative surgerytechniques, and is a Joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center andan accredited Chest Pain Center.
Schedule: 1.0 FTE (40 hours per week) Shift: Monday - Friday, Days
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is an advanced practice nurse (APN), who demonstrates advanced cognitive and psychomotor capabilities in the assessment, treatment and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems. The CNS functions autonomously and in collaboration with other healthcare providers as a practitioner, educator, consultant, clinical leader and researcher. The CNS relies on his / her advanced education and applies advanced knowledge to analyze, interpret and make inferences from facts and circumstances that vary from case to case. The CNS operates independently and works directly with clinical department leaders on the nursing units where there is no direct supervision. The work of a CNS is intellectual in nature and is reflective of their advanced, specialized academic training and education. The consistent exercise of a high degree of discretion and independent judgment is required.
The CNS is primarily responsible for: development, execution, evaluation and ongoing supervision of individual and project action plans in order to improve patient care outcomes; create policies and procedures; conduct independent assessment of patients and their current treatment plans; collaborate on plan of care with physicians, nursing leadership and clinical staff; assess education/training needs and develop and present programs specially-tailored to meet the needs of a multidisciplinary clinical staff; analyze complex clinical data and recommend instructional programs to close the gap in institutional clinical knowledge; independently plan, organize and execute special projects and complete projects assigned by CNO or designee; exercise authority and/or may effectively recommend personnel actions, such as hiring, transfers, corrective action, and participating in job performance evaluations.
The NICU Nursing teams are dedicated, healthcareproviders with excellent services for patients at Good Samaritan Hospital.Interested in joining this team? Apply online now.
Qualifications
Educations: Graduate from an accredited school of Nursing. Masters Degree in Nursing required.
License/Certifications: Current California RN License. Current Neonatal Resuscitation Provider CourseCertification. Current Basic Cardiac Life Support ProviderCourse. CA Clinical Nurse Specialist Certification.
Experience: Three to five years of Acute Care neonatalexperience with a solid grasp of hemodynamics required.
Three years prior work experience as a ClinicalNurse Specialist preferred.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge: Analytical skills necessary in order to handlenon-routine, complex administrative details. Computer literate with in-depth knowledge,experience to operate word processing, data bases, graphics, and spreadsheetsin order to generate reports.Ability tolearn and operate Kronos, Meditech, Excel, Word and patient care managementsystems. Maintains current knowledge and competency inareas of specialization.
We offer you anexcellent total compensation package, including competitive salary, excellentbenefit package and growth opportunities. We believe in our team and yourability to do excellent work with us. Your benefits include 401k, PTO medical,dental, flex spending, life, disability, tuition reimbursement, employeediscount program, employee stock purchase program.We would love to talk to you about this fantastic opportunity.
HospitalCorporation of America (HCA) is a community of 94,000 Registered Nurses and38,000 active physicians. We have over 1,900 facilities ranging from hospitals,freestanding ERs, ambulatory surgery centers, and urgent care clinics. Ourfacility based staff continues to raise the bar in patient care. Ten HCAhospitals have been named in IBM Watson Healths top 100 best-performinghospitals based on patient satisfaction and operational data.
