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...

Objective People living with HIV (PLHIV) who are homeless or at risk of homelessness experience significantly worse health outcomes than those in stable housing. They are more likely to be diagnosed late, use substances, engage in high–risk sexual activities and have difficulty adhering to treatments. This review identifies strategies described and evaluated in the international social science ...

This descriptive, exploratory study aimed to validate nursing interventions proposed by the Nursing Interventions Classification for impaired skin integrity, deficient knowledge, ineffective therapeutic regimen management for predominant nursing diagnoses in people with diabetes. Participants were 21 specialist nurses in diabetes mellitus in Brazil, in 2007. Interventions were analyzed accordin...

The purpose of this article is to describe the role of the acute care gerontological clinical nurse specialist (GCNS) and provide an exemplar of using GCNS expertise in the implementation of gerontological nursing best practices in hospitalized patients with delirium.

233 Lisa Hartkopf Smith, RN, MS, AOCN®, CNS, is an oncology clinical nurse specialist at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, OH. Mention of specific products and opinions related to those products do not indicate or imply endorsement by the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing or the Oncology Nursing Society. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/09.CJON.233-234 National Patient Safety Goal ...

Fecal incontinence affects slightly more than 1% of community-dwelling adults. This article describes an assessment format, with a research basis when available, that has been developed in a specialist nursing clinic in the United Kingdom. The focus is on how to obtain the most useful information from the patient to plan appropriate nursing interventions. A subsequent article will describe the ...

Bo Zhou1, Liang Yu1, Yanzhen Zhang1 and Yun Liu2* 1Department of Medicine, Huangshan Vocational Technical College, Huangshan, China 2Department of Nursing, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, 30 5 East Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210002, China *Corresponding author: Yun Liu, RN, Medical-Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist, Professor, Department of Nursing, Jinl...