Job Overview
The Clinical Nurse Ethicist is a member of the ethics program team and is responsible for collaborating with clinical teams, patients, and families to address ethical issues in pediatric healthcare. This role is responsible for leading specific interventions, programs, and education within the ethics program under the direction of the Clinical Program Manager, including but not limited to Moral distress rounds, ethics liaison programs, and multidisciplinary education. Engages in and participates in research to advance the field of bioethics and to serve the needs of the hospital. Serves as a facilitator for change directed toward strengthening the hospital staff's sense of moral community, remaining current with the fields of bioethics, health law and philosophy.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Nursing.
Experience: Two (2) years of clinical practice in a pediatric hospital or healthcare delivery system. Experience with moral distress debriefing strongly preferred.
Certification(s):
- BLS for Healthcare Providers/CPR.
- ANCC recognized certification in clinical specialty.
- Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C) within one (1) year of hire.
Licensure(s): Colorado Registered Nurse (RN) license.
Responsibilities
POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE
- Neonate - <30 days
- Infancy - >30 days to 1yr
- Toddlers - >1yr to 3yrs
- Pre-Schoolers - >3yrs to 5yrs
- School age - >5yrs to 13yrs
- Adolescent - >13yrs to 18yrs
- Adult - >18yrs to 65yrs
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.
- Active participant of the ethics committee and represents ethics on multiple house wide work groups and initiatives.
- Cultivates ethics program growth commensurate with organizational growth in strategic alignment with clinical and administrative aims; collaborates actively on ethical issues, and partners in championing excellence in pediatric care.
- Serves as an expert ethics resource to staff and families, providing consultation and recommendations.
- Acts as lead for ethics liaison program.
- Meets regularly with ethics liaisons in each department, develops ongoing educational programming for ethics liaisons, evaluates quality and efficacy of ethics liaison work, and serves as a mentor to ethics liaisons.
- Serves as lead for moral distress rounds within ethics program, providing facilitation, reporting of themes and proposals to drive organizational improvement opportunities, and program evaluation.
- Develops, implements, and evaluates pediatric ethics education, including unit-based forums/moral distress rounds, develops in-services on specific ethical issues or policies for hospital and medical staff, trainees, students, professionals, and community at large.
Other Information
SCOPE & LEVEL
- Guidelines: Fully qualified, full performance or journey level. Guidelines are generally but not always clearly applicable, requiring the employee to exercise judgment in selecting the most pertinent guideline, interpret precedents, adapt standard practices to differing situations, and recommend alternative actions in situations without precedent.
- Complexity: Duties assigned are generally complex and may be of substantial intricacy.
- Decision Making: Exercises judgment and discretion, and is responsible for determining the time, place and sequence of the work performed.
- Communications: Contacts with team members, clients or the public where explanatory or interpretive information is exchanged, defended, and gathered and discretion and judgment are required within the parameters of the job function.
- Supervision Received: Performs work with minimal supervisory oversight.
Physical Requirements
Ability to Perform Essential Functions of the Job
- Audio-Visual: Color Discrimination: Good
- Audio-Visual: Far Vision: Good
- Audio-Visual: Hearing: Good
- Audio-Visual: Near Vision: Good
- General Activity: Drive to satellite locations as required.
- General Activity: Sit: 2-4 hrs. per day
- General Activity: Walk: 2-4 hrs./day
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
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