The Nurse-Midwife: Clinical Nursing Specialist

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 plight of the psychiatric clinical nurse specialist: the dismantling of the advanced practice nursing archetype.

If there were an endangered species list for nursing practice, the psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist (PMHCNS) would surely now be at the very top. Changes in the delivery of mental healthcare over the past 2 decades have clouded the value of the traditional PMHCNS role and pushed this specialist to the brink of extinction. The latest assault was the announcement by the America...

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

What is a clinical nurse specialist?

Dan Negoianu, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Medical Director, Inpatient Dialysis Director, ICU Nephrology Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania “ nurse specialists play an integral role on the leadership team. Their expertise in practice and quality are drivers for patient outcomes. It is a pleasure to partner and collaborate with clinical nurse specialists on everyday projects and sy...