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The University of Michigan Health System improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.
Job Summary
The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be responsible for providing expert clinical leadership to the nursing staff in Childrens Emergency Services at Mott Hospital.
Responsibilities
The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is the clinical leader for a program or area of nursing practice within Michigan Medicine. The advanced knowledge and skills required for this role include clinical expertise in a focus area, evidence-based practice, collaboration, consultation, education, mentoring, and change leadership. These are essential to advance the practice of nursing and the professional development of nurses. The specialized knowledge and skills are used within three major areas of focus: patient/family, nurses and nursing practice, and the organization/system. The CNS and the Clinical Nursing Director are partners in leading the nursing clinical practice area. The CNS coordinates and guides clinical activities/projects of nurses within a practice area. The CNS is accountable for collaborating with members of the health care team to design, implement, and measure safe, cost-effective, evidence-based care strategies. The CNS is responsible for maintaining current professional knowledge and competencies and contributing to the advancement of the practice of nursing at the unit/system, local, state and/or national and international level.
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Direct Patient Care
- Serves as a reliable source of information on the latest evidence supporting cost-effective, safe nursing practices.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team using the nursing process to integrate the nursing perspective into a comprehensive plan of care for the patient/family.
- Identifies and prioritizes nursing care needs for a select population of patients/families. This includes synthesis of assessment data, advanced knowledge, experience to pose problems amenable to advanced interventions.
- Conducts comprehensive, holistic wellness and illness assessments using established or innovative evidence-based techniques, tools, and methods.
- Initiates and plans care conferences or programs for individual patients or populations of patients. Calls for interdisciplinary care conferences when barriers or LOS protraction are evident or predicted.
- Assists the team and individual nurses to establish working goals and targets, and measures to be assessed and documented as evidence of progress in plan of care. Establishes intervention families within standards of care that are best united for best effects.
- Designs and evaluates innovative educational programs for patients, families, and groups.
- Establishes methods to evaluate and document nursing interventions at the individual, unit, cluster and professional practice model level.
- Evaluates the impact of nursing interventions on fiscal and human resources including establishing average and variance economics of plans of care for major populations and targeted conditions.
Nursing/Nursing Practice
- Collaborates with others to resolve issues related to patient care, communication, policies, and resources.
- Creates and revises nursing policies, protocols and procedures using evidence-based information to achieve outcomes for indicators that are nurse-sensitive.
- Identifies facilitators and addresses barriers that affect patient outcomes.
- Leads clinical practice and quality improvement initiatives for a unit or a program.
- Collaborates with nurses to develop practice environments that support shared decision-making.
- Assists the staff in developing critical thinking and clinical judgment through formal rounds, informal and daily habits in bedside consultation, activity and procedural progression likely in plan of day and plan of stay.
- Creates a nursing care environment that stimulates continuous self-learning, reflective practice, feeling of ownership and demonstration of responsibility and accountability.
- Collaborates with Educational Nurse Specialists, Educational Nurse Coordinators and others on content and operational design of orientation, clinical competency, and other clinical educational program development.
- Mentors nurses to acquire new skills, develop their careers and effectively incorporate evidence into practice. Assists with the specific development of portfolios that demonstrate navigational way to achieve mastery in daily care activities, reading and literature reviews.
- Models advanced communication and therapeutic interventions in interviews, evaluation, patient-family assessments and high performance team conversation within urgent and planned care conferences.
- Provides input for staff evaluation.
- Provides formal and informal education for nurses and other health professionals and health professional students.
- Leads in the conduct and utilization of nursing research as well as evaluation of daily work process mapping required to insert the evidence and remove activities of less value.
- Analyzes data from quality reports, incidents, consultations and care conferences to present trends and patterns indicative of substantial quality improvement initiatives and requirements for education and mentorship.
Organization/System Leadership
- Consults with other units and health care professionals to improve care.
- Leads/assists institutional groups to enhance the clinical practice of nurses and improve patient outcomes.
- Develops, pilots, evaluates, and incorporates innovative models of practice across the continuum of care.
- Designs and evaluates programs and initiatives that are congruent with the organization's strategic plans, regulatory agency requirements, and nursing standards. Includes data from readmissions, claims, incidents, and daily habit to frame doable improvements.
- Identifies, collects, and analyzes data that serve as a basis for program design and outcome measurement.
- Participates in need identification, selection and evaluation of products and equipment.
- Advances nursing practice through participation in professional organizations, publications, and presentations.
- Models high performance team development in daily habits of rounds, grand rounds, huddle reports, and care conferences. Participates in the development of prioritization schema for production targets in planned and unplanned admissions based on system priorities and population needs.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED
Direction is received from the Children's and Women's Director of Quality, Safety, and Patient Experience.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED
Functional supervision is exercised over Clinical Nurses, LPN's, Allied Health, Service/Maintenance and other support staff.
Required Qualifications
- Completion of an accredited graduate-level Clinical Nurse Specialist Program.
- A master’s degree in nursing with a clinical focus is required.
- CNS certification recognized by American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or The American Association of Critical Care Nurses Certification Corporation (AACN).
- Current RN licensure to practice nursing and current CNS specialty licensure in the State of Michigan is required.
- Two (2) years of experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist with an adult or pediatric clinical focus is required.
- Minimum of five (5) years of pediatric experience as a pediatric RN.
- Minimum of one (1) year of RN experience in the ED or ICU.
- In order to be considered for this position the applicant must have met or will have met all the required qualifications prior to the start date of employment.
- RESUME REQUIRED (for both internal & external applicants): You must attach a complete and accurate resume to be fully considered for this position.
Desired Qualifications
- Recent experience in assessing, treating, and evaluating patients typically cared for in a Level 1 Emergency Department in a tertiary healthcare environment, including the use of devices and pharmaceutical treatment modalities.
- Recent RN or CNS experience caring for patient populations typically seen in a Level 1 ED, including trauma RN experience.
- CNS Certification with pediatric focus.
- Certification in Emergency Nursing, Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor, Trauma Nursing Core Course Instructor, and/or Emergency Nursing Core Course Instructor.
- Computer skills using various applications: Internet, email, word processing, presentation, and database.
- Previous experience with and demonstrated ability to interact with internal and external personnel at all levels of an academic, tertiary care healthcare environment.
- Three or more years of designing and collaborating with the implementation of competency and education activities for nursing staff, including competency programs, orientation, staff, and professional development.
- Strong teaching skills as evidenced by the ability to demonstrate a teachable moment, development of class content, staff education materials, and patient education materials.
- Demonstrated analytical skills necessary to gather data, collate to present recommendations for solutions to identified problems.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with the Continuous Quality Improvement process, including recent experience implementing keystone quality improvement initiatives.
- Previous experience as principal investigator or co-investigator on a research project(s).
- Experience in the implementation of service initiatives at the unit level.
- Demonstrated experience in professional writing and being published in professional periodicals.
- Eligibility for appointment in the School of Nursing.
Why Join Michigan Medicine?
Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan medicine is comprised of over 26,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world's most distinguished academic health systems. In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.
What Benefits can you Look Forward to?
Nursing at Michigan offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits!
Hourly range for Clinical Nurse Specialist $50.53-$76.32 / hour
The benefit package includes:
- Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage
- 2:1 Match on retirement savings and immediate vesting
- Generous Paid Time Off Allowances
- Robust Tuition and Certification support programs
- Large offering of no cost CEs and professional development for advancement
Nursing Specific Info
Required qualifications must be met by the candidate in order to be interviewed and considered for the position. Posting may be filled after the initial 5-day posting period. Applicants who have left the UMPNC bargaining unit must include on their resume dates of past employment including months and years of service along with effort. Positions less than 20 hours/week may be combined. If you have questions regarding this posting or would like assistance with nursing opportunities please contact Nurse Recruitment at (734) 936-5183.
Modes of Work
Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.
Work Schedule
Hours per week: 40
Hours & days will vary and need to flex to the needs of the units
Location: Children's Emergency Services at Mott Hospital
Union Affiliation
This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the Michigan Nurses Association and the U-M Professional Nurse Council union, which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.
Background Screening
Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.
Contact Information
If you have questions regarding this posting or would like assistance with Advanced Practice Nursing opportunities please contact Nurse and Physician Assistant Recruitment at (734) 936-5183 or e-mail [email protected]. For a current listing of all open APRN job opportunities at Michigan Medicine, please visit www.UMnursing.org.
U-M EEO Statement
The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Job Opening ID
278615
Working Title
CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST - Children's Emergency Services
Job Title
CLIN NURSE SPEC
Work Location
Michigan Medicine - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Modes of Work
Onsite
Full/Part Time
Full-Time
Regular/Temporary
Regular
FLSA Status
Exempt
Organizational Group
Um Hospital
Department
MM CW Children's Emergency Svc
Posting Begin/End Date
6/15/2026 - 6/28/2026
Career Interest
Nursing - All Nursing
Nursing - Advanced Practice Professional
Nursing - Emergency Department
Mission Statement
The University of Michigan Health System improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.
Job Summary
The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be responsible for providing expert clinical leadership to the nursing staff in Childrens Emergency Services at Mott Hospital.
Responsibilities
The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is the clinical leader for a program or area of nursing practice within Michigan Medicine. The advanced knowledge and skills required for this role include clinical expertise in a focus area, evidence-based practice, collaboration, consultation, education, mentoring, and change leadership. These are essential to advance the practice of nursing and the professional development of nurses. The specialized knowledge and skills are used within three major areas of focus: patient/family, nurses and nursing practice, and the organization/system. The CNS and the Clinical Nursing Director are partners in leading the nursing clinical practice area. The CNS coordinates and guides clinical activities/projects of nurses within a practice area. The CNS is accountable for collaborating with members of the health care team to design, implement, and measure safe, cost-effective, evidence-based care strategies. The CNS is responsible for maintaining current professional knowledge and competencies and contributing to the advancement of the practice of nursing at the unit/system, local, state and/or national and international level.
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Direct Patient Care
- Serves as a reliable source of information on the latest evidence supporting cost-effective, safe nursing practices.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team using the nursing process to integrate the nursing perspective into a comprehensive plan of care for the patient/family.
- Identifies and prioritizes nursing care needs for a select population of patients/families. This includes synthesis of assessment data, advanced knowledge, experience to pose problems amenable to advanced interventions.
- Conducts comprehensive, holistic wellness and illness assessments using established or innovative evidence-based techniques, tools, and methods.
- Initiates and plans care conferences or programs for individual patients or populations of patients. Calls for interdisciplinary care conferences when barriers or LOS protraction are evident or predicted.
- Assists the team and individual nurses to establish working goals and targets, and measures to be assessed and documented as evidence of progress in plan of care. Establishes intervention families within standards of care that are best united for best effects.
- Designs and evaluates innovative educational programs for patients, families, and groups.
- Establishes methods to evaluate and document nursing interventions at the individual, unit, cluster and professional practice model level.
- Evaluates the impact of nursing interventions on fiscal and human resources including establishing average and variance economics of plans of care for major populations and targeted conditions.
Nursing/Nursing Practice
- Collaborates with others to resolve issues related to patient care, communication, policies, and resources.
- Creates and revises nursing policies, protocols and procedures using evidence-based information to achieve outcomes for indicators that are nurse-sensitive.
- Identifies facilitators and addresses barriers that affect patient outcomes.
- Leads clinical practice and quality improvement initiatives for a unit or a program.
- Collaborates with nurses to develop practice environments that support shared decision-making.
- Assists the staff in developing critical thinking and clinical judgment through formal rounds, informal and daily habits in bedside consultation, activity and procedural progression likely in plan of day and plan of stay.
- Creates a nursing care environment that stimulates continuous self-learning, reflective practice, feeling of ownership and demonstration of responsibility and accountability.
- Collaborates with Educational Nurse Specialists, Educational Nurse Coordinators and others on content and operational design of orientation, clinical competency, and other clinical educational program development.
- Mentors nurses to acquire new skills, develop their careers and effectively incorporate evidence into practice. Assists with the specific development of portfolios that demonstrate navigational way to achieve mastery in daily care activities, reading and literature reviews.
- Models advanced communication and therapeutic interventions in interviews, evaluation, patient-family assessments and high performance team conversation within urgent and planned care conferences.
- Provides input for staff evaluation.
- Provides formal and informal education for nurses and other health professionals and health professional students.
- Leads in the conduct and utilization of nursing research as well as evaluation of daily work process mapping required to insert the evidence and remove activities of less value.
- Analyzes data from quality reports, incidents, consultations and care conferences to present trends and patterns indicative of substantial quality improvement initiatives and requirements for education and mentorship.
Organization/System Leadership
- Consults with other units and health care professionals to improve care.
- Leads/assists institutional groups to enhance the clinical practice of nurses and improve patient outcomes.
- Develops, pilots, evaluates, and incorporates innovative models of practice across the continuum of care.
- Designs and evaluates programs and initiatives that are congruent with the organization's strategic plans, regulatory agency requirements, and nursing standards. Includes data from readmissions, claims, incidents, and daily habit to frame doable improvements.
- Identifies, collects, and analyzes data that serve as a basis for program design and outcome measurement.
- Participates in need identification, selection and evaluation of products and equipment.
- Advances nursing practice through participation in professional organizations, publications, and presentations.
- Models high performance team development in daily habits of rounds, grand rounds, huddle reports, and care conferences. Participates in the development of prioritization schema for production targets in planned and unplanned admissions based on system priorities and population needs.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED
Direction is received from the Children's and Women's Director of Quality, Safety, and Patient Experience.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED
Functional supervision is exercised over Clinical Nurses, LPN's, Allied Health, Service/Maintenance and other support staff.
Required Qualifications
- Completion of an accredited graduate-level Clinical Nurse Specialist Program.
- A master’s degree in nursing with a clinical focus is required.
- CNS certification recognized by American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or The American Association of Critical Care Nurses Certification Corporation (AACN).
- Current RN licensure to practice nursing and current CNS specialty licensure in the State of Michigan is required.
- Two (2) years of experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist with an adult or pediatric clinical focus is required.
- Minimum of five (5) years of pediatric experience as a pediatric RN.
- Minimum of one (1) year of RN experience in the ED or ICU.
- In order to be considered for this position the applicant must have met or will have met all the required qualifications prior to the start date of employment.
- RESUME REQUIRED (for both internal & external applicants): You must attach a complete and accurate resume to be fully considered for this position.
Desired Qualifications
- Recent experience in assessing, treating, and evaluating patients typically cared for in a Level 1 Emergency Department in a tertiary healthcare environment, including the use of devices and pharmaceutical treatment modalities.
- Recent RN or CNS experience caring for patient populations typically seen in a Level 1 ED, including trauma RN experience.
- CNS Certification with pediatric focus.
- Certification in Emergency Nursing, Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor, Trauma Nursing Core Course Instructor, and/or Emergency Nursing Core Course Instructor.
- Computer skills using various applications: Internet, email, word processing, presentation, and database.
- Previous experience with and demonstrated ability to interact with internal and external personnel at all levels of an academic, tertiary care healthcare environment.
- Three or more years of designing and collaborating with the implementation of competency and education activities for nursing staff, including competency programs, orientation, staff, and professional development.
- Strong teaching skills as evidenced by the ability to demonstrate a teachable moment, development of class content, staff education materials, and patient education materials.
- Demonstrated analytical skills necessary to gather data, collate to present recommendations for solutions to identified problems.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with the Continuous Quality Improvement process, including recent experience implementing keystone quality improvement initiatives.
- Previous experience as principal investigator or co-investigator on a research project(s).
- Experience in the implementation of service initiatives at the unit level.
- Demonstrated experience in professional writing and being published in professional periodicals.
- Eligibility for appointment in the School of Nursing.
Why Join Michigan Medicine?
Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan medicine is comprised of over 26,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world's most distinguished academic health systems. In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.
What Benefits can you Look Forward to?
Nursing at Michigan offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits!
Hourly range for Clinical Nurse Specialist $50.53-$76.32 / hour
The benefit package includes:
- Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage
- 2:1 Match on retirement savings and immediate vesting
- Generous Paid Time Off Allowances
- Robust Tuition and Certification support programs
- Large offering of no cost CEs and professional development for advancement
Nursing Specific Info
Required qualifications must be met by the candidate in order to be interviewed and considered for the position. Posting may be filled after the initial 5-day posting period. Applicants who have left the UMPNC bargaining unit must include on their resume dates of past employment including months and years of service along with effort. Positions less than 20 hours/week may be combined. If you have questions regarding this posting or would like assistance with nursing opportunities please contact Nurse Recruitment at (734) 936-5183.
Modes of Work
Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.
Work Schedule
Hours per week: 40
Hours & days will vary and need to flex to the needs of the units
Location: Children's Emergency Services at Mott Hospital
Union Affiliation
This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the Michigan Nurses Association and the U-M Professional Nurse Council union, which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.
Background Screening
Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.
Contact Information
If you have questions regarding this posting or would like assistance with Advanced Practice Nursing opportunities please contact Nurse and Physician Assistant Recruitment at (734) 936-5183 or e-mail [email protected]. For a current listing of all open APRN job opportunities at Michigan Medicine, please visit www.UMnursing.org.
U-M EEO Statement
The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Job Opening ID
278615
Working Title
CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST - Children's Emergency Services
Job Title
CLIN NURSE SPEC
Work Location
Michigan Medicine - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Modes of Work
Onsite
Full/Part Time
Full-Time
Regular/Temporary
Regular
FLSA Status
Exempt
Organizational Group
Um Hospital
Department
MM CW Children's Emergency Svc
Posting Begin/End Date
6/15/2026 - 6/28/2026
Career Interest
Nursing - All Nursing
Nursing - Advanced Practice Professional
Nursing - Emergency Department
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Where Michigan roles are concentrated, by current openings.
Clinical Nurse Specialist Job Market in Michigan
A snapshot from current Michigan openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Trinity Health2
- Bronson Healthcare Group1
- Henry Ford Health1
- The University of Michigan1
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services4
- Education1
What Michigan Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in clinical nurse specialist jobs across Michigan.
- Active APRN license and CNS certification from AACN or NACNS in a recognized specialty
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from an accredited program
- Minimum two to three years of clinical experience in the relevant patient population or specialty area
- Demonstrated experience leading quality improvement initiatives, protocol development, or evidence-based practice projects
- Strong skills in staff education, clinical coaching, and interdisciplinary team collaboration
- Familiarity with electronic health record systems such as Epic, Cerner, or Meditech
Clinical Nurse Specialist Jobs in Michigan: Frequently Asked Questions
How many clinical nurse specialist jobs are there in Michigan?
There are 5+ clinical nurse specialist openings in Michigan on Migrate Mate as of June 2026, with the most roles in Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Grand Rapids. New positions post regularly as employers across Michigan hire.
How much do clinical nurse specialists make in Michigan?
Clinical nurse specialists in Michigan earn a median of about $94,300 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $77,260 for the lowest 10% to over $116,710 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which Michigan cities have the most clinical nurse specialist jobs?
Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Grand Rapids have the most clinical nurse specialist openings in Michigan right now, with additional roles spread across smaller metros statewide.
Which companies hire clinical nurse specialists in Michigan?
Employers hiring clinical nurse specialists in Michigan include Trinity Health, Bronson Healthcare Group, and Henry Ford Health, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026.
Are there remote clinical nurse specialist jobs in Michigan?
Yes. About 0% of clinical nurse specialist openings tied to Michigan are remote or hybrid as of June 2026. The rest are on-site roles based in Michigan metros.
How do I apply for clinical nurse specialist jobs in Michigan?
You can apply to clinical nurse specialist jobs in Michigan directly on Migrate Mate. Search the listings above, find roles that match your experience and preferred Michigan location, then apply to each one that fits.
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