What is a clinical nurse specialist?

Substantive areas of clinical nurse specialist practice: a comprehensive review of the literature.

AIM A comprehensive review of the literature was performed to describe the substantive clinical areas of clinical nurse specialist (CNS) practice. BACKGROUND There is lack of understanding about the role of CNSs. Debates over blending CNS and nurse practitioner roles are common, as are questions and uncertainties about new models of advanced practice nursing endorsed by the American Associati...

Clarifying the Concept of the Role of the Specialist Nurse in the Intensive Care Unit: Analyzing the Concept with the Rogers Approach

Introduction: In the new age, there is a growing need for nurses with specialized roles for technological advancement, aging, and the development of chronic diseases to receive quality care and reduce treatment costs. Methods: For this purpose, English language databases Web of Sciences, Science direct Proquest, Pubmed, Scopus from 1980 to 2019 and Persian databases, Iran Medex, SID, and Magira...

Statutory and regulatory recognition for clinical nurse specialists in Oregon.

Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) in Oregon initiated the process of achieving statutory and regulatory recognition several years ago. Throughout this process, specific phases of activity and events helped CNSs to identify what was required to achieve this goal. The resulting lessons learned are shared in this report. Statutory recognition of CNSs in Oregon occurred in 1999, and the administrat...

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".