Clinical Nurse Specialist - Surgical Services

Job description

Overview Northside Hospital is award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing. Constantly expanding the quality and reach of our care to our patients and communities creates even more opportunity for the best healthcare professionals in Atlanta and beyond. Discover all the possibilities of a career at Northside today. Responsibilities: - Serves as a role model of excellence in nursing knowledge and clinical practice. - Major roles of the Clinical Specialist include those of practitioner, educator, consultant, researcher, change agent, and Clinical Guideline Manager. - Utilizes clinical practice expertise to serve as a role model for collaborative practice model. - Develops clinical guidelines for high-risk/high cost patients through clinical pathwaysystems. - Conducts clinical research; assists nursing staff in applying research findings and pathwaydata analysis results as they relate to patient outcomes. - Monitors resource utilization to assure appropriate level of utilization. - Assists with the development and evaluation of policies, procedures, and standards of care;ensures consistency of clinical guideline documents and hospital-wide policies withrecognized regulato...