Clinical Practice Specialist Nurse Educator-Resource Team

At Northwestern Medicine, every patient interaction makes a difference in cultivating a positive workplace. This patient-first approach is what sets us apart as a leader in the healthcare industry. As an integral part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to join our quest for better health care, no matter where you work within the Northwestern Medicine system. We pride ourselves on providing competitive benefits: from tuition reimbursement and loan forgiveness to 401(k) matching and lifecycle benefits, our goal is to take care of our employees.

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The Clinical Practice Specialist reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

The Clinical Practice Specialist leads efforts to ensure quality clinical practice and professional development at the front-line.

• Quality:
  Develops and implements education opportunities for staff identified through needs assessments, departmental and system goals and new/expanded clinical programs.
• Quality:
  Supports staff to seek/maintain specialty certification including monitoring progress and completion.
• Quality:
  Participates in review of unit/division dashboard through LDOC and assesses for opportunities to improve in quality and practice areas; develops corresponding action as needed with key unit/division stakeholders.
• Quality:
  Monitors & trends quality report data with operational manager for clinical quality/safety issues and develops associated action plans as needed.
• Quality:
  Leads/facilitates inter-professional teams for unit/division based and house-wide clinical process improvement.

• Culture of Safety:
  Plans, implements, evaluates division specific learning activities to improve safety (i.e. simulations with support of Professional Practice and Development team members.
• Culture of Safety:
  Unit-based clinical policy and procedure review/updating.
• Culture of Safety:
  Provides input into staff evaluations as related to clinical competence (quality and practice).
• Culture of Safety:
  Rounds on unit with intention of coaching and mentoring.
• Culture of Safety:
  Identifies gaps in staff knowledge/skills and remediates.
• Culture of Safety:
  Participates in Staff RN Peer Review process.

• Evidence-based Practice/Research:
  Identify opportunities/mentor/implement EBP projects, including unit/division order sets and practice guidelines.
• Evidence-based Practice/Research:
  Identify, mentor and/or participate in nursing or inter-professional clinical research projects.
• Evidence-based Practice/Research:
  Assist in interpreting research findings and developing strategies for implementation of results into evidenced based clinical practice guidelines.

• Shared Leadership:
  Attend Unit Based Staff Meetings.
• Shared Leadership:
  Attend Unit Based Shared Leadership meeting (POC) and Clinical Nurse Leadership Council (CNLC).
• Shared Leadership:
  Attend Unit Leadership (LDOC) Meetings.
• Shared Leadership:
  Off-unit committee/project team participation as appropriate.

• Fiscal Stewardship:
  New product evaluation to make recommendations to value-based purchasing committee.
• Fiscal Stewardship:
  Make recommendations for improvements in clinical efficiency in partnership with operational manager.
• Fiscal Stewardship:
  Uses organizational and unit/department resources efficiently.
• Fiscal Stewardship:
  Manages work schedule efficiently, completing tasks and assignments on time.

• Annual Competency/Orientation/Retention:
  Leads content review/revision for unit based orientation annually.
• Annual Competency/Orientation/Retention:
  Actively Participates in new employee orientation (PCS Orientation and unit based orientation).
• Annual Competency/Orientation/Retention:
  Participates in monitoring new hire goal progress and in touch points/check-ins.
• Annual Competency/Orientation/Retention:
  Utilizes internal/external resources to develop and implement unit’s annual competency and annual education plan and maintains record of completion.
• Annual Competency/Orientation/Retention:
  Collaborates with unit…