Position Summary / Career Interest:

The Clinical Nurse Specialist Intern, under the direction of the Division Director, assists/supports the division administratively and clinically. They assist in the continuous improvement of the patient experience; patient outcomes and staff work processes. They work to develop and mentor nurses to implement evidence-based practices in their work areas that will alleviate patient distress, facilitate ethical decision-making, and respond to diversity. Under the guidance of a CNS, the CNS Intern will facilitate policy development, lead interprofessional teams, mentor others, and partner both locally and globally to improve outcomes. The CNS Intern will foster an environment of collaboration and respect with physician colleagues, nurses and other healthcare team members. The Intern will demonstrate growth and will assume increasing amounts of accountability within the Division throughout their internship.


Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Coaching Competency: Provide skillful guidance and teaching to advance the care of patients, families, groups of patients, and the profession of nursing.
• Consultation and Collaboration Competency: Demonstrate patient, staff, or system focused interaction between professionals in which the consultant is recognized as having specialized expertise and assists consultee with problem solving. Work jointly with others to optimize clinical outcomes. The CNS Intern collaborates at an advanced level by committing to authentic engagement and constructive patient, family, system, and population-focused problem solving.
• Ethical decision-making, moral agency and advocacy: Identifying, articulating, and acting on ethical concerns at the patient, family, health care provider, system, community, and public policy levels.
• Expert Clinical Practice Competency: Provide direct interaction with patients, families, and groups of patients to promote health or well-being and improve quality of life. Characterized by a holistic perspective in the advanced nursing management of health, illness and disease states.
• Research/EBP Competence: Actively engage in thorough and systematic inquiry. Includes the search for, interpretation, and use of evidence in clinical practice and quality improvement to address clinical problem, as well as active participation in the conduct of research.
• Systems Leadership Competency: Demonstrates ability to manage change and empower others to influence clinical practice and political processes both within and across systems.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• High School Graduate
• Bachelor Degree Nursing
• Acceptance and active enrollment in a Credentialed CNS Masters or Doctoral program within 12 months of starting the position
• 2 or more years of clinical nursing experience
• Demonstrated communication, leadership and interpersonal skills required
• Proficient in Word, PowerPoint Excel

Preferred Education and Experience

• Master's Degree
• Doctor of Nursing Practice

Required Licensure and Certification

• Basic Life Support Heartsaver (BLS HS) (Non-Clinical) - American Heart Association (AHA)
• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Single State - State Board of Nursing As a condition of your employment and continued employment with the health system, you are required to secure a Nurse Compact License (NCL) within 60 days of your date of hire. This will enable you to perform your job duties not only in Kansas, but other compact states. You will be responsible for any expenses you incur in securing this license, and must provide your manager with evidence of this license before the sixty-day period expires. If you fail to secure the NCL as required, you will be immediately removed from the work schedule and placed on an unpaid administrative leave, until we can understand the reasons for your non-compliance. Further failure to comply with the licensing requirement will result in your end of employment with the health system.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.