Operating Room Clinical Nurse Specialist or Quality and Practice Advisor

Company Description

We are proud to inform you that this position is eligible for our Student Loan Assistance Program. You may receive up to $9,600 which will be applied directly to your student loan account*.

* This benefit is for eligible positions as outlined in our program guidelines.

At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, we know world‑renowned care begins with world‑class caring. That's why we combine advanced technologies and breakthrough discoveries with family‑centered care. It's why we provide our caregivers with continuing education and state‑of‑the‑art facilities, like the newly remodeled Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. And it's why we need caring, committed people on our team — like you.

Join us on our mission to heal humanity, one child and family at a time.

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Specialties: OR/SSU/Preop/PACU

This paragraph summarizes the general nature, level and purpose of the job.

Clinical Nurse Specialists are Master's Degree‑prepared advanced practice Registered Nurses in roles characterized by the following responsibilities:

• Provide care for patients with multiple or complex health needs within a specific clinical area.
• Use advanced clinical skills in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of patients.
• Use theoretical and clinical expertise to assist health care providers and patients in promoting or achieving optimal health.
• Develop and implement standards of nursing practice.
• Serve as a consultant or expert resource person for other health providers.
• Facilitate an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to meeting the needs of patients.
• Seek consultations and make referrals as needed.
• Promote research to improve clinical nursing practice.

Clinical Nurse Specialists assess, plan, provide and evaluate specialized nursing care of patients by advancing the quality and scope of nursing practice through clinical practice, education, research, consultation, and administrative roles in the area of clinical expertise (e.g., diabetes, cardiology, respiratory, pediatrics, etc.) for a specified patient population.

• Analyzes unit patient care plans currently for evidence of documentation of standards of practice, shares findings with staff, and collaborates in developing a variety of valid and reliable assessment tools to assist staff with documentation records.
• Demonstrates expertise in the execution of daily patient care, providing collaboration, direction, and instruction to the staff in the application and utilization of the nursing process.
• Elects, implements, and evaluates comforting, therapeutic, restorative, and preventative nursing measures for selected patients; expertise in the planning and delivery of special patient care problems.
• In collaboration with nursing managers and other researchers, performs, assists with, and initiates, evaluates and revises nursing plans of care that reflect a multidisciplinary approach to patient care; coordinates the nursing plan of care with the medical plan of care.
• Maintains and teaches others the specialized knowledge and skill necessary to perform techniques and routines in the specialty service area.
• Offers consultative services within nursing services and to other disciplines to provide or participate in planning, development, execution and evaluation of clinical research.
• Participates in the hospital's quality improvement program; collaborates in setting unit standards of care and monitors indicators of quality projects.
• Provides direct patient care using consistency in assessing current patient care situations, priorities, and needs.
• Provides safety, comfort care, and treatment of patients according to established legal, ethical, and institutional standards.
• Serves as a consultant to patients, families, and staff.

Quality and Practice Advisors (QPA) are Registered Nurses who utilize evidence‑informed practice to facilitate and lead improvements in patient care and in the work environment. The QPA is a facilitator of improvement work evaluating data trends, developing clinical practice changes grounded by evidence‑based practice, clinical specialty…