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Do you want to gain solid expertise in highly specialized care over time? Then apply for the position of clinical nurse specialist with us! The vascular department specializes in both vascular surgery and vascular medicine, so you can apply for this position if you are specialized in either surgery or medicine. Your main goal is to be a clinical specialist who helps the staff achieve excellent care for our patients.

We belong to the thoracic and vascular care area at Skåne University Hospital. The vascular area includes three units; the inpatient department Vascular Department, Vascular Surgery, and Vascular Clinic. We provide both vascular surgical and vascular medical care for patients with various types of vascular diseases. Additionally, we are responsible for vascular care in the southwestern and central healthcare districts in Skåne and for the highly specialized treatment of vascular diseases throughout the Southern healthcare region. Even though we are specialized and at the forefront, we are a smaller area, which contributes to short decision-making paths and trust in each other.

In the vascular department, care flows are often fast, with normal lengths of stay ranging from two to seven days. The most common surgical conditions are carotid stenosis, aortic aneurysm, and claudication/critical ischemia, which are treated either with endovascular techniques, open surgery, or conservative treatment. The medical diagnoses mainly include pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, and malignant hypertension.

Within the VO, there is a nursing professor who develops and supports evidence-based practices and leads the work of implementing Region Skåne's Competence and Service Model, which provides a clear structure for your learning and career opportunities within our organization.

We believe that responsiveness, trust, and individual development within the team, along with high competence and safe care, are prerequisites for a pleasant and secure work environment! Therefore, we focus on trust-based leadership, both in terms of introduction and further education. As a new employee, you will receive a tailored introduction program that includes shadowing, theory, and internships within the vascular field.

Through continuous internal training, such as wound care training and transfer knowledge, as well as external university courses, we build a knowledge-stable unit. At Malmö University, there is a course in Nursing in Vascular Diseases and Vascular Surgical/Endovascular Treatment worth 7.5 credits, and the goal is for you to take it within a couple of years.

We are a department that works with development and improvement efforts. If you enjoy developing and being developed, the vascular department is a place for you.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a clinical nurse specialist, you will work both administratively and clinically in close collaboration with patients in a team of nursing assistants, biomedical analysts, doctors, medical secretaries, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists. In your role, you will work with both acute and planned care and perform regular nursing tasks.

We work to ensure that patients receive good and safe care and ultimately excellent care. To achieve this, your focus as a clinical nurse specialist will be as follows:

• Lead nursing work:
  • help plan and prioritize care where needs have been identified based on potentially complex patients or inexperienced colleagues
  • gain patient knowledge by reading up on the patient
  • be responsible for the discharge process in complex cases.
• Clinical specialist in patient-centered work:
  • identify patients in deterioration/support/guidance in difficult situations/emergency care
  • through nursing rounds direct interventions and systematically screen them.
• Develop forms for interdisciplinary teamwork, person-centered care, and increased patient safety.
  • lectures based on identified deficiencies (after deviations, needs, wishes).
• Together with the unit manager, be responsible for ensuring that the competence level is sufficient to meet patients' needs:
  • continuous dialogue with unit managers regarding competence levels
  • adapt lectures to the knowledge needs that exist
  • shadow colleagues as agreed.
• Have a special responsibility for introducing new employees to clinical work and organizing evaluation and follow-up:
  • introduction program
  • evaluation of supervisors and those supervised
  • be responsible for introduction days.
• Conduct training for employees:
  • situation-based supervision
  • organize training
  • assist in developing individual training plans.

In addition, you will mentor clinical nurse specialist students, implement methods and research results in the organization, and clarify the organization's goals.

The position initially involves daytime work and every fifth weekend.

QUALIFICATIONS

We welcome you who are a licensed clinical nurse specialist with permission to practice in Swedish healthcare. The specialist education refers to medical and/or surgical care. Language skills in Swedish at least corresponding to level C1 according to the Council of Europe's level scale are a requirement.

You who apply have an interest in our area and want to work with both medical and surgical care. You have a good attitude towards both patients and colleagues. For you, it is natural to represent the organization and the employer, which among other things means that you share Region Skåne's values; welcoming, driving, caring, and respect. Additionally, it is important that you take responsibility for your work and are interested in improvement work. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

In this recruitment, ongoing selection is applied. We warmly welcome your application today!

OTHER

Skåne University Hospital (Sus) is located in Lund and Malmö and is the country's third-largest hospital. Sus is a knowledge hub for healthcare at all stages of life at regional, national, and international levels. Our 12,000 employees are involved in driving development within the university hospital's three mission areas: care, research, and education. With us, you will work in a value-driven organization that develops healthcare together with patients and their relatives. Welcome!

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