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RN Clinical Nurse Specialist, Trauma
Vanderbilt Health
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RN Clinical Nurse Specialist, Trauma

Vanderbilt Health

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Posted:
March 24, 2021
Location:
Nashville, Tennessee
Salary:
Open
Discipline:
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses / Physician Assistants
Description

Your Role:

Performs a wide range of nursing clinical, consultative, educational and research activities with established expertise. Serves as a mentor and leader in the development of standards and in the training and monitoring of practice to achieve and maintain those standards.

Department/Unit Summary
Our Trauma ICU unit specializes in caring for Level I Trauma patients from the Middle Tennessee area, covering over a 66,000 square mile area. Our patient focus is on providing quality care to multisystem acute and critical care patients involving traumatic injuries, and preparing them for their return back into societ y. We strive for the best and set high standards for the care we provide. A typical shift for our nurses includes working with a dedicated team to care for patients with head, neck, spinal cord, thoracic, abdominal, pelvic, and a variety of orthopedic injuries. The Vanderbilt Trauma staff members are excellent in teamwork, reacting quickly to situations, thinking critically, and managing patients from admission to discharge.
Hours:
  • Full-time, 40 hours/week

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Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity -- of culture, thinking, learning and leading -- is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Our Nursing Philosophy:

We believe highly skilled and specialized nursing care is essential to Vanderbilt University Medical Center's mission of quality in patient care, education and research. We believe nursing is an applied art and science focused on helping people, families and communities reach excellent health and well-being.

Achieve the Remarkable
Learn more about VUMC Nursing:


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Acts as an internal and external consultant and liaison to promote agreed upon clinical enterprise or Patient Care Center goals.
  • reviews nursing care plans for selected patients and serves as a resource to the nursing staff
  • teaches and models new skills/care modalities for the health care team
  • serves as a mentor to nursing staff on clinical, professional and research practices that support high quality, satisfying and cost beneficial care across the continuum.
  • Fosters individual and corporate staff development in the area of specialty
  • directs and/or conducts needs assessments for individuals or groups
  • develops, coordinates, implements and evaluates orientation and continuing education systems
  • Participates in scholarly and/or research activities in area of expertise.
  • maintains current knowledge of professional literature
  • conducts, coordinates or participates in research studies
  • writes for publication
  • teaches, precepts or mentors nursing students
  • participates in community projects
  • Assists in designing tools and systems to facilitate and optimize nursing care.
  • uses continuous improvement techniques (Plan, Do, Study, Act) to select or target areas/processes for improvement
  • mentors others in the continuous improvement cycle
  • shares results of process improvement with others on a timely basis either through verbal or written presentations
  • Provides expert nursing care to selected patients in area of specialty.
  • plans and manages patient care
  • provides patient and family education
  • prepares patient for the next level of care
  • addresses problems
  • communicates/collaborates effectively to meet patient and team goals
  • Under the direction of the PCC Administrative Director, participates in program development.
  • coordinates or directs program development
  • implements program(s)
  • evaluates program results and processes

Internal Number: 2102498
About Vanderbilt Health
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is home to Vanderbilt University Hospital, The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and the Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital. These hospitals experienced more than 61,000 inpatient admissions during fiscal year 2015. Vanderbilt’s adult and pediatric clinics treated nearly 2 million patients during this same period. Vanderbilt University Hospital and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are recognized again this year by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals as among the nation’s best with 18 nationally ranked specialties. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is world renowned because of the innovation, work ethic and collegiality of its employees. From our health care advances to our compassionate care, Vanderbilt owes its accomplishments and reputation to staff and faculty who bring skill and drive and innovation to the medical center day after day. World-leading academic departments and comprehensive centers of excellence pursue scientific discoveries and transformational educational and clinical advances across the entire spectrum of health and disease.As t...he largest employer in middle Tennessee, we welcome those who are interested in ongoing development in a caring, culturally sensitive and professional atmosphere. Most of us spend so much of our lives at work, we want to be part of maintaining a workplace in which people support one another and encourage reaching for excellence. Many high-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt because of the professional growth they experience and because of their appreciation of Vanderbilt’s benefits, public events and discussions, athletic opportunities, beautiful setting and, above all, sense of community and purpose.Vanderbilt and its employees share a set of mutual expectations that have been created with productivity, legality, fairness and safety always in mind. We believe that our investment in training and compensating employees multiplies in value when we enable individuals to deliver their best performance for the benefit of us all.
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