Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist The clinical nurse specialist (CNS) offers uniqueness as a nurse who can move between numerous roles with expert skill-sets assisting facilities to enhance health care outcomes for patients. The CNS is a notable advanced practice nurse (APRN), who contributes to delivery of population health care and quality improvement. The CNS is an interpreneurial nurse and pivotal to meet the increasing needs in rural population health care.
Purpose
Rural communities struggle to recruit and retain providers. There are multiple barriers beginning with education of nurses and physicians in a primarily urban-based setting and few providers willing to explore a practice in a rural community setting. These barriers give …show more content…
The CNS role in quality appears diminutive with the hiring of Quality Improvement teams strained to train new nurses and staff. However, the key is the CNS who can serve multi-level roles in health care innovation. The CNS has title protection as an advanced practice nurse in some states because of rigorous credentialing at the state and national level. The literature is beginning to report some employers are taking notice of the decreasing health care costs utilizing a CNS (Gordon, Lorilla, and Lehman, 2012). More evidence as to the CNS role in quality and cost containment in literature needs to …show more content…
The CNS role is a leadership role. The IOM reports the development of structure and improving quality should infuse into the CNS role because of educational preparedness to influence all three CNS foci of patient, organization, and nursing practice (Finkelman, 2013). The CNS role always involves quality improvement.
Outcomes directly related to the CNS practice through implementation strategies deserve evaluation in literature. For example, the University of Pennsylvania utilized a CNS scorecard, tracking outcomes directly related to CNS influence (Muller, McCauley, Harrington, 2011). Another initiative, The Cancer Reform Strategy reported the CNS involvement improved the experience of patients diagnosed with cancer (Hardie and Leary, 2010).
Facilities receiving Magnet designation through the American Nurse Credentialing Center are distinguishable and display clinical practice change and process improvement as the foundation of health care service (Gordon, Lorilla, and Lehman, 2012). The CNS role has the skill-sets to assist clinical practice change and quality improvements in health care systems. The CNS role is a health care interdisciplinary role in the demand for sustaining Magnet recognition (Gordon, Lorilla, and Lehman,
Purpose
Rural communities struggle to recruit and retain providers. There are multiple barriers beginning with education of nurses and physicians in a primarily urban-based setting and few providers willing to explore a practice in a rural community setting. These barriers give …show more content…
The CNS role in quality appears diminutive with the hiring of Quality Improvement teams strained to train new nurses and staff. However, the key is the CNS who can serve multi-level roles in health care innovation. The CNS has title protection as an advanced practice nurse in some states because of rigorous credentialing at the state and national level. The literature is beginning to report some employers are taking notice of the decreasing health care costs utilizing a CNS (Gordon, Lorilla, and Lehman, 2012). More evidence as to the CNS role in quality and cost containment in literature needs to …show more content…
The CNS role is a leadership role. The IOM reports the development of structure and improving quality should infuse into the CNS role because of educational preparedness to influence all three CNS foci of patient, organization, and nursing practice (Finkelman, 2013). The CNS role always involves quality improvement.
Outcomes directly related to the CNS practice through implementation strategies deserve evaluation in literature. For example, the University of Pennsylvania utilized a CNS scorecard, tracking outcomes directly related to CNS influence (Muller, McCauley, Harrington, 2011). Another initiative, The Cancer Reform Strategy reported the CNS involvement improved the experience of patients diagnosed with cancer (Hardie and Leary, 2010).
Facilities receiving Magnet designation through the American Nurse Credentialing Center are distinguishable and display clinical practice change and process improvement as the foundation of health care service (Gordon, Lorilla, and Lehman, 2012). The CNS role has the skill-sets to assist clinical practice change and quality improvements in health care systems. The CNS role is a health care interdisciplinary role in the demand for sustaining Magnet recognition (Gordon, Lorilla, and Lehman,