Are you ready to lead transformational change in emergency care? ChristianaCare is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join our dynamic Emergency Services team at Christiana Hospital and our Middletown Emergency Department. This is your opportunity to make a lasting impact on patient outcomes and nursing practice.
ChristianaCare’s Emergency Departments offer a unique opportunity to practice across a high-performing, nationally recognized health system that combines the intensity of a major academic medical center with the accessibility of a community-based setting.
Christiana Hospital is home to one of the busiest Emergency Departments in the nation, caring for more than 200,000 patients annually. As Delaware’s only Level I Trauma Center, it delivers the highest level of emergency and trauma care, supporting a broad range of complex and high-acuity patients in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary, academic environment. With a strong focus on evidence-based practice, innovation, and care delivery transformation, Christiana Hospital provides an exceptional setting for clinical leaders to drive quality and influence outcomes at scale.
Complementing this is the Middletown Emergency Department, a dynamic, community-based site serving a rapidly growing population. This location provides high-quality, patient-centered emergency care in a collaborative, team-oriented environment with a strong emphasis on efficiency, safety, and patient experience. Fully integrated with Christiana Hospital, the Middletown ED offers seamless access to advanced specialty care and transfer capabilities while maintaining a close-knit team culture.
Across both settings, ChristianaCare fosters a culture of clinical excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation—offering Clinical Nurse Specialists the opportunity to influence practice, lead quality initiatives, and enhance patient outcomes across diverse emergency care environments.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Acts as transformational leader, catalyzing and facilitating change toward higher levels of professionalism and
competency.
Provides advanced clinical consultation and serves as a resource for patients, families, and staff in specialty
areas.
Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes and promote structural empowerment.
Leads and disseminates research and quality improvement initiatives, supporting new knowledge, innovations,
and clinical improvements.
Models exemplary professional practice through direct patient care, mentorship, and staff development.
Evaluates and reports empirical outcomes, using data to drive practice improvements.
Ensures care delivery is evidence-based and consistent with the relationship-based care model.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
Schedule: This position is an exempt position with typically a Monday - Friday day shift schedule, requiring flexibility to meet the needs of the department.
What we Offer:
· Robust medical, dental and eyecare benefits, effective Day One!
· 403b with defined contribution.
· Generous paid time off with annual roll-over and opportunities to cash out.
· 12 week paid parental leave. ChristianaCare fully absorbs cost of Delaware PMFL.
· Incredible work/life benefits including membership to care.com, access to back up care services for dependents, retirement planning services, financial coaching, fitness and wellness reimbursement and great discounts through several vendors for hotels, rental cars, theme parks, shows and sporting events.
Annual Compensation Range $100,152.00 - $160,243.20This pay rate/range represents ChristianaCare’s good faith and reasonable estimate of compensation at the time of posting. The actual salary within this range offered to a successful candidate will depend on individual factors including without limitation skills, relevant experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements.
Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
Post End Date
Sep 1, 2026
EEO Posting Statement
ChristianaCare offers a competitive suite of employee benefits to maximize the wellness of you and your family, including health insurance, paid time off, retirement, an employee assistance program. To learn more about our benefits for eligible positions visithttps://careers.christianacare.org/benefits-compensation/
Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most dynamic health care organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care costs.
ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,336 beds), a freestanding emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute.
ChristianaCare is nationally recognized as a great place to work, rated by Forbes as the 2nd best health system for diversity and inclusion, and the 29th best health system to work for in the United States, and by IDG Computerworld as one of the nation’s Best Places to Work in IT. ChristianaCare is rated by Healthgrades as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals and continually ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek and other national quality ratings. ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 260 residents and fellows. With its groundbreaking Center for Virtual Health and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care.
