Clinical Nurse Specialist
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
- Vol. 21 (4) , 37-49
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00002727-199902000-00007
Abstract
This article recognizes challenges facing the traditional clinical nurse specialist (CNS) role and supports the merger of the nurse practitioner (NP) and the CNS into a hybrid advanced practice registered nurse (APRN). A historical review of each role is presented, with justification for role merger. The focus of the article is to present a personal account of this author's successful reengineering of a traditional cardiovascular CNS role to conform to a new state and institutional APRN model and ultimately to better serve a population of post-myocardial infarction patients.Keywords
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