Product Overview
The Clinical Nurse Specialist Handbook addresses the specific, practical, day-to-day responsibilities and challenges of the CNS role. The handbook uses concrete, user-friendly teaching strategies and the exemplars are drawn from real practice and offer suggestions as well as considerations for CNS practice. Educators and professionals alike will find this book very helpful. The topics are cutting-edge and this text is a great resource for graduate students enrolled in CNS graduate programs, especially in clinical practicum courses. It will also serve as excellent refreshers for established advanced practice nurses. The topics will also help ground the new CNS by facilitating the transition from staff to APN. This book does an excellent job of presenting basic and complex content and introduces topics that are relevant to modern practice such as: Establishing and maintaining strategic alliances Chairing committees Performance evaluation Patient Safety Consultation Workplace violence and healthy work environments Budgeting basics Educating patients, staff, and students
