Foundations of Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice (eBook)

Contributors

Foreword Tracy B. Chamblee, PhD, APRN, PCNS-BC, CPHQ, CPPS

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Evolution of the Clinical Nurse Specialist Role and Practice in the United States

2. Clinical Nurse Specialist Comportment: Professional Attributes, Ethical Conduct, and Citizenship

3. Exploring the Nature of Nursing Knowledge and Its Implications for Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice

4. Nurse-Sensitive Outcomes

UNIT II DESIGNING AND EVALUATING NURSING INTERVENTIONS

5.Clinical Reasoning Model: A Clinical Inquiry Guide for Solving Problems in the Nursing Domain

6. Managing the Change/Innovation Process

7. Evaluating Interventions in Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice

8.Using Complex Adaptive Systems Theory to Guide Change

9. Engaging Staff in Learning

10. Shaping Practice: Evidence-Based Practice Models

11. The Clinical Nurse Specialist and Conducting Research in the Practice Setting

12. Transformational Leadership as the Clinical Nurse Specialist’s Capacity to Influence

UNIT III. CREATING A CULTURE OF QUALITY

13. Patient Safety

14. Application of High Reliability Tenets to the Practice of Clinical Nurse Specialists

15. Answering Questions With Big Data

16. Improving Efficiency: New Approaches to Quality Improvement

17. Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice Supporting Magnet® Certification

18. Clinical Nurse Specialist Fellowship Model

UNIT IV. DELIVERING CARE TO CLIENTS

19. Individual as Client

20. Family as Client

21. Population-Based Data Analysis

22. Patient-Centered Teaching and Coaching: The Clinical Nurse Specialist Role

23. New Horizons for Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice: Telehealth

UNIT V. THE BUSINESS OF CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST PRACTICE

24. Consultation in Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice

25. Mentoring

26. Project Management: An Essential Competency for Clinical Nurse Specialists

27. Program Evaluation and Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice

28. Technology Management in Complex Healthcare Settings

29. Advanced Nursing Practice: Pathway to Entrepreneurship

30. Regulatory and Professional Credentialing of Clinical Nurse Specialists

31. Student Clinical Experiences: Responsibilities of Student, Preceptor, and Faculty

UNIT VI. CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST ROLE IN A VARIETY OF SETTINGS

32. Hospital-Based Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice

33. Clinical Nurse Specialist Entrepreneurship: A Journey From Idea to Invention Leading to a Consulting/Education Business

34. The Clinical Nurse Specialist in Industry/Business

35. CNS Practice in Home Healthcare: Clinical Nurse Specialists Bridging the Gap From Inpatient to Independence

UNIT VII. EXEMPLARS OF CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST PRACTICE IN A VARIETY OF SPECIALTY AREAS

36. Providing Pediatric Palliative Care in a Regional Children’s Medical Center

37. Clinical Nurse Specialist as Wound & Ostomy Care Provider

38. The Clinical Nurse Specialist as Online Patient Advocate and Educator

39. Exploring Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice in the Emergency Department

40. Rapid Response Exemplar: Implementation of an In-Hospital Stroke Identification and Response Program

41. Managing a Cardiac Arrhythmia Clinic

42.Implementing and Sustaining Evidence-Based Practice

Index