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CLINICAL NURSING

CLINICAL NURSING

The clinical nurse specialists are advanced nursing professionals that serve as experts in evidence-based nursing practice within one of a number of different specialty areas. They integrate their advanced knowledge of disease processes in assessing, diagnosing, and treating patient illnesses, but their role extends beyond providing patient care.

The fundamental goal of clinical nurse specialists is to provide safe, qualify, and cost-effective speciality care, all while working to improve the healthcare system from within. The clinical nursing specialists play a unique role in the clinical environment, as their only focus is to provide superior healthcare delivery.

Clinical nurse specialists also serve as expert consultants who lend their expertise to improve healthcare delivery within individual facilities, hospital systems, and integrated health systems. They also serve as researchers who oversee evidence-based practice studies and develop new research standards and protocols while striving to bring the newest knowledge into the clinical environment, bridging research findings and patient care.



  • Clinical nurse specialists work in a variety of clinical practice areas, specializing in one or more of the following:
    • Population (pediatrics, women’s health, geriatrics, etc.)
    • Type of care (psychiatric, rehabilitation, etc.)
    • Type of problem (wound care, pain management, etc.)
    • Disease/medical subspecialty (oncology, diabetes, etc.)
    • Setting (critical care, emergency, etc.)

  • As direct care providers, clinical nurse specialists perform health assessments, order diagnostic and laboratory tests and, in some cases, prescribe medications and provide pharmacologic and nonpharmacological treatments. However, the main focus of the profession is on designing, implementing, and evaluating both patient-specific and population-specific programs of care, providing leadership in multidisciplinary groups, and implementing alternative solutions that address problems and/or patient care issues.

  • Clinical nurse specialists improve clinical outcomes by providing direct patient care and by serving as liaisons between the healthcare team and the patient and patient’s family,

  • Values and behaviours

    • care

    • compassion

    • competence

    • communication

    • courage

    • commitment

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