Description
Provide advanced nursing expertise and leadership in clinical settings to optimize patient outcomes and nursing practice. Direct and support nursing staff, champion evidence-based protocols, and ensure compliance with clinical policies, regulations, and standards.
- • Coordinate and conduct educational programs or in-service training on clinical procedures.
- • Observe, interview, and assess patients to identify care needs.
- • Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice and care delivery systems.
- • Provide direct care by performing comprehensive assessments, developing differential diagnoses, conducting specialized tests, and prescribing medications or treatments.
- • Deliver specialized direct and indirect care within designated specialty areas.
- • Maintain unit policies, procedures, objectives, and infection control standards.
- • Collaborate with physicians, pharmacists, therapists, and other providers to optimize patient care.
- • Develop nursing service philosophies, goals, policies, priorities, and procedures.
- • Develop, implement, and evaluate standards of nursing practice in the specialty (e.g., pediatrics, acute care, geriatrics).
- • Develop or assist in developing interdisciplinary care and treatment plans.
- • Make clinical recommendations to clinicians, patients, payers, and health care organizations.
- • Plan, evaluate, and modify treatment programs using patient assessments and records.
- • Present patients and families with information needed for informed health care decisions.
- • Instruct nursing staff in assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, technology, and resource use.
- • Direct or supervise nursing staff in delivering patient therapies.
- • Identify training needs and conduct sessions for nursing students and medical staff.
- • Stay current by reviewing literature, networking, and participating in professional organizations or conferences.
- • Monitor and evaluate patient conditions in collaboration with the care team.
- • Participate in clinical research by reviewing protocols and records, monitoring compliance, and engaging with regulators.
- • Perform discharge planning and care transitions.
- • Prepare reports documenting patient care activities and outcomes.
- • Write nursing orders and clinical documentation.
- • Provide consultation to health care providers on discharge, patient care, and clinical procedures.
- • Develop and maintain policies, procedures, objectives, and patient care standards based on evidence.
- • Design and implement evaluation programs to measure nursing quality and system effectiveness.
- • Design patient education programs to support informed treatment decisions.
- • Lead unit or department implementation of and compliance with regulatory or accreditation processes.
- • Chair or co-chair nursing or interprofessional committees.
- • Teach patient education programs that enable informed care and treatment choices.
- • Coach and mentor nurses and other caregivers to support professional growth and development.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
