Job Purpose:Provides patient care and staff education by utilizing specialty training; consulting with patients and health professionals.Duties: * Assesses patient needs within specialty area by obtaining a medical history; examining the patient; gathering related information. * Develops nursing care plan by analyzing and documenting the patient's physical condition, psychological status, and influencing social factors; applying special training. * Provides coordinated patient treatment by communicating the nursing care plan and all pertinent information to other members of the health care team. * Updates nursing care plan by maintaining and reviewing medical record; keeping abreast of changing conditions and needs; re-evaluating goals; modifying treatment plan. * Maintains quality of care by integrating risk management, quality management, utilization management, and infection control management principles within the care plan. * Keeps nurse manager informed by communicating current activities and problems in specialty care. * Prepares health care providers in speciality care delivery by applying knowledge and special training; providing educational programs; monitoring specialty care applications; counseling caregivers. * Provides speciality care information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends. * Completes specialty care projects by identifying and implementing new technology and resources; redesigning systems; re-deploying human resources; revising educational programs. * Maintains legal and accreditation compliance by recommending policy positions concerning federal, state, and local regulations, and jacho standards; anticipating emerging issues. * Updates specialty care job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations. * Enhances nursing and medical center reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.Skills/Qualifications:Medical Teamwork, Multi-tasking, Bedside Manner, Administering Medication, Judgment, Nursing Skills, Physiological Knowledge, Infection Control, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Pain Management, Acute/Critical Care