Clinical Nurse Specialist

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $55.25/Hr. - CAD $79.42/Hr.

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Summary

Join the Palliative & Hospice team as a CNS!  This is an exciting opportunity to apply your advanced nursing skills and be an agent of change within a compassionate, interdisciplinary team.

Reporting to the Program Director for Program issues and the Chief of Professional Practice and Nursing for professional issues, the Clinical Nurse Specialist provides expert nursing care to patients/residents and families and functions as a clinical leader in a particular specialty within and/or across programs. Consults and collaborates with Clinical Group/Service Leaders, other nurses and health care professionals to improve and advance nursing practice and patient/resident outcomes both in the area of specialty and in nursing practice initiatives throughout Providence Health Care.

What You Bring

Education:Master's degree in Nursing. Current practicing registration as a registered nurse with the BC College of Nurses and Midwives. Five years of Nursing experience with three years of recent, related experience in a clinical area relevant to the area of specialty.Skills and Abilities:Ability to develop, implement and evaluate programs in areas of clinical practice.Ability to perform in-depth holistic patient/family assessments, plan, implement and evaluate care for complex care situations, and guide interdisciplinary team members in care planning.Ability to be an effective consultant for individuals and groups.Ability to conceptualize research questions and collaborate with researchers to conduct research.Ability to role model expert nursing practice.Ability to assist in the development of professional and leadership skills of the nursing staff.Ability to synthesize and utilize research findings in practice.Ability to present clinical/research work in a scholarly way.Prepared to be affiliated with a university school.

What We Offer

·         A competitive salary: The salary range for this position is $55.25 - $79.42 per hour, depending on experience.

·         Growth opportunities: We welcome individuals at all stages of their career, offering opportunities for professional development and growth.

·         State-of-the-art facilities:  The new St. Paul’s Hospital and health campus will be the most innovative approach to the delivery of integrated care in B.C. and Canada, designed to appropriately address the future health needs of patients, families, and our communities. From hospital care to primary and community health solutions, the new St. Paul’s Hospital and health campus will continue to lead innovations in care, research, and teaching. The new St. Paul’s Hospital is expected to open in 2027.

·         Inclusive culture: We respect the diversity, dignity and interdependence of all persons. We value the cultural richness that our diverse workforce brings to the care of our equally diverse population of patients and residents.

Your day to day:

Exemplifies and promotes excellence in nursing practice in a specialty area through activities such as:--maintaining practice excellence through involvement with selected patient/resident groups .--utilizing practice opportunities to provide expert nursing care to patients/residents or groups of patients, to evaluate nursing practice, and to provide clinical learning activities for nurses.--influencing nursing practice by participating in patient/resident care advocacy issues directed toward improving practice and the quality of patient/resident care.Provides consultation to nurses and other members of the interdisciplinary team, through activities such as:--assisting the members of the interdisciplinary team with clinical decision-making and with planning, implementing, and evaluating patient/resident care.--participating in the development of patient/resident care programs as required.--evaluating the effectiveness of the consultative process for patient/resident outcomes as well as development of the consultee.Provides leadership to nurses, leaders, and other members of the interdisciplinary team in identifying learning needs of patients/residents and staff and determine priorities for educational programs through activities such as:--contributing to an atmosphere conducive to learning.--developing programs to assist nursing staff to meet performance expectations and standards of professional practice.--implementing programs directly, as appropriate, using formal and informal teaching strategies.Supports nursing research to promote clinical knowledge development and research-based clinical practice through activities such as:--demonstrating and promoting critical thinking which leads to the formulation of research questions and hypotheses.--assisting nurses to evaluate their own practice systematically and to identify pertinent care problems for investigation.--critiquing current research findings related to specialty area. Disseminates the research findings and collaborates with colleagues in determining the effectiveness in our practice setting, for those relevant to our setting, designs and implements changes in practice.

Who We Are:

Providence Health Care is one of the largest faith-based health care organizations in Canada. For the people at Providence, living our Mission, Vision and Values means providing British Columbians with compassionate, socially just, exceptional and innovative care every day.

From our humble roots 129 years ago, Providence has grown into globally renowned research, teaching, and care organization. As individuals within a mission-driven organization, we choose to be part of Providence Health Care because we value the organization’s long commitment to social justice and compassionate care, and its commitment to the process of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

We acknowledge that Providence Health Care and the new St. Paul’s Hospital site is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.