The Clinical Nurse Specialist Role

The clinical nurse specialist role in Canada.

The clinical nurse specialist (CNS) provides an important clinical leadership role for the nursing profession and broader healthcare system; yet the prominence and deployment of this role have fluctuated in Canada over the past 40 years. This paper draws on the results of a decision support synthesis examining advanced practice nursing roles in Canada. The synthesis included a scoping review of...

Role of the clinical nurse specialist.

The consultation component of the clinical nurse specialist role.

The clinical nurse specialist (CNS) role in Canada has 5 key components: clinical practice, consultation, education, research, and leadership. This study focuses on the consultation component: how it is described by CNSs and the facilitators and barriers to its implementation. A qualitative descriptive design was used to interview 8 CNSs who worked with adult populations in a university hospita...

The role of the specialist nurse.

Heart failure is growing in incidence as a result of the aging of the population and of improved survival from myocardial infarction. However, quality of life is poor among patients with heart failure, and has shown to be worse than in most chronic conditions. These patients often have a poor prognosis—around 50% of those with severe heart failure will die within the first year. Since this is a...

Re: editorial entitled "clinical nurse specialist as attending nurse".