RN Acute Care Clinical Practice Expert

The Acute Care Clinical Practice Expert is a registered nurse with advanced knowledge and clinical expertise in acute care, specifically telemetry and medical-surgical. This expert ensures high patient/family satisfaction and cost-effective care through evidence-based practice. They assess patient/family needs within Acute Care Services, plan/execute/evaluate nursing care, and implement coordinated programs for telemetry and medical-surgical patients.

As an expert practitioner, this role optimizes nursing quality through direct patient care, staff development, consultation, and research, while also facilitating policy writing and competency assessments. This individual leads the design, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based educational programs, orientations, and continuing education across multiple units or facility-wide. They manage programs for professional growth and competency, aligning with organizational mission, vision, values, and strategic goals. This role ensures quality, safety, and patient-centered care, collaborating with stakeholders for compliance with performance improvement plans, professional standards, and regulatory requirements.

Serving as a clinical leader, the Acute Care Clinical Practice Expert promotes excellence in clinical nursing care, acting as an advanced learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, champion for scientific inquiry, and advocate for nursing professional development. They foster interprofessional collaboration, teamwork, and drive evidence-based practice and teaching. This role develops, coordinates, and evaluates evidence-based clinical care by applying specialty knowledge and expert clinical practice across client, nurse, and system spheres of influence, adhering to all clinical and ethical standards.

• Registered Nurse: CA (RN:CA) upon hire Required
• Basic Life Support - CPR (BLS-CPR), upon hire Required
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) upon hire Required
• Fire Safety (FIRESAFETY) within 90 Days of hire Required
• Clinical Nurse Specialist:CA (CNS:CA) upon hire Preferred

Education

• Masters Of Nursing upon hire Required
• Minimum of three (3) years of clinical experience in the Adult Acute Care setting.
• PhD, DNP, EdD upon hire Preferred
• Theoretical and practical expertise in nursing education. Preferred

Founded in 1887, Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center is a 318-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in downtown Los Angeles, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, women’s health, and a family birth center. In 2025, we opened our new patient tower, Grand Tower, featuring a dramatically expanded Emergency Department and Family Birth Center that will increase patient comfort and privacy. 

Additionally, California Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and recently was awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care. 

California Hospital Medical Center shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health and CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care. 

One Community. One Mission. One California