Session Summary
If you’re yearning to discover what might be the next logical step in your nursing career, we have good news. This concurrent panel showcases the role of the clinical nurse specialist and how this multidimensional career can shape care, lead innovation and inspire meaningful change across critical care, education, leadership and entrepreneurship. Discover more about this evolving avenue of advanced practice and walk away with the motivation to act as the catalyst for change, a leader in nursing excellence and a driver of high-quality outcomes.
Objectives
- Analyze the multidimensional role of the CNS across various settings, from hospital to entrepreneurship.
- Illustrate the value of the CNS as a clinical expert, nursing leader and catalyst for change in their quest to improve patient outcomes.
- Describe the CNS’s impact on organizational culture, nursing excellence, and patient outcomes through the three spheres of influence.
Topics
Career Development
Role
APRN, Staff
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Successful Completion
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
Accreditation
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.00 contact hours.
Disclosure
Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.
Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.
Refund Policy
Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.