Advanced Practice Nurse Specialist - Mental Health

Regions Hospital; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401K with match

Disability insurance

Tuition reimbursement

On-site fitness center

On-site employee clinic

Center for Employee Resilience

Job summary

Regions Hospital seeks an Advanced Practice Nursing Specialist to join the Mental Health team across Health Partners System. This leadership role focuses on influencing patient care, nursing practice and organizational change rather than direct patient care.

The specialist coordinates complex patient care, embeds evidence into practice, leads quality improvement, and develops tools such as policies and order sets across all eight hospitals.

Qualifications

• Three years of clinical staff nursing in acute care.
• Active RN license in MN or WI; licensure in the other state within 3 months of hire.
• Current MN APRN license; Wisconsin APRN licensure to be discussed at hire.
• For APRN areas: master's degree or higher in nursing; DNP if applicable within 3 years of date of hire.
• National APRN certification (CNS, NP, CNM) as applicable
• Maintain specialty certification as appropriate to patient population.
• CPR certification (BLS for Healthcare Providers)

Responsibilities

• Coordinate complex patient care across the Mental Health population.
• Lead quality improvement, standards of care, and policy development.
• Standardize and implement evidence-based policies and Epic workflows.
• Provide professional consultation and lead interdisciplinary teams.
• Expand complex-patient consultation and support for nurses managing high-risk behavioral health care.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Clinical expertise

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Regulatory compliance

Education

Master's in nursing

APRN certification

DNP preferred

Tools

Epic systems

Job description

Please note: This is not a direct patient care role, it is a nursing leadership role within the Mental Health patient population across all 8 HealthPartners hospitals.

Regions Hospital is looking to hire an exceptional, experienced Advanced Practice Nursing Specialist to join our Mental Health team across Health Partners System. The Advanced Practice Nurse Specialist is a clinical leader such as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) or Nurse Practitioner (CNP).

This advanced nursing practice role is focused on influencing patient care, nursing practice and organizational change. This role attends to the needs of patients in a particular population wherever they may present along the continuum of care. This role coordinates complex patient care, evaluates patient care outcomes, utilizes, and conducts clinical research, provides professional consultation, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration. This role also develops tools (e.g., critical pathways, order sets, guidelines, protocols, and policies) which facilitate care rendered by others in basic practice. This role embeds evidence into clinical practice, leads committees and workgroups in quality improvement, and provides innovative solutions throughout the system.

This role supports regulatory, quality improvement, nursing practice, standards of care and focuses across all 8 hospitals. Priorities in this role are:

• Maintain behavioral health regulatory readiness and timely follow-through on identified gaps.
• Lead proactive suicide prevention, restraint and seclusion, ingestion, elopement, and environmental safety improvement work.
• Standardize evidence-based policies, care models, competencies, education, and Epic workflows across supported sites.
• Expand complex-patient consultation and support for nurses managing high-risk behavioral health care.
• Strengthen data surveillance, quality-measure stewardship, dashboards, outcome evaluation, and reporting of clinical and operational impact.

Work Schedule

1.0 FTE, Day Shifts. No scheduled weekends. Exempt.

Required Qualifications

• *Three (3) years (6240 hours) clinical staff nursing in acute care.
• *Active RN License in MN or WI required at time of hire. After hire, RN must obtain licensure in the other state, and this process must be obtained within 3 months of hire.
• *Current license as an advanced practice registered nurse in MN. Wisconsin licensure in advanced practice to be discussed at hire based on role.
• *For areas with an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) specialty certification available: master's degree or higher in nursing and completion of required education prerequisites to be licensed as an APRN, or completion within 3 years of date of hire. For areas without an APRN specialty certification: DNP or completion within 3 years of date of hire.
• *Certified by a national nurse certification organization acceptable to the Minnesota or Wisconsin Board of Nursing (CNS, NP, CNM) where specialty certification is available
• *Maintain specialty certification as appropriate to the patient population served.
• *CPR certification (American Heart BLS for Healthcare Providers)

Preferred Qualifications

• *ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Benefits

HP offers a competitive benefits package (.5 FTE or greater) that includes medical insurance, dental insurance, 401K with match, disability insurance, and tuition reimbursement. We offer an on-site employee fitness center as well as on-site employee clinic to make it more convenient for our staff to get the care they need. We also have a Center for Employee Resilience that provides support and evidence-based practices to bring relief and build resiliency. Regions Hospital is a qualified non-profit employer under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.