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- Webinar Recording – Atypical Covid-19 Patients: How the CNS Can Affect Care
- Webinar Recording – Bladder Management – Where Does the CNS Fit in Management of Patients with Urinary Retention
- Webinar Recording – Caring for Patients with Substance Use Disorders and Opioid Use Disorders: The Clinical Nurse Specialist Role
- Webinar Recording – CNS Impact on Research, EBP, PI, QI
- Webinar Recording – CNSs Rise: President’s Webinar to Kickoff CNS Recognition Week
- Webinar Recording – Early Identification of Sepsis: Role of the CNS
- Webinar Recording – Exploring Pain and Opioid Conversions
- Webinar Recording – Facts about Vax: 2019 Immunization Update
- Webinar Recording – Medications for Covid Treatment
- Webinar Recording – NACNS Town Hall
- Webinar Recording – Political Astuteness Into Action
- Webinar Recording – The CNS Role as an Entrepreneur and Consultant
- Webinar Recording – The CNS Role in Dissemination
- Webinar Recording – The Impact of the CNS in Implementation of Sustainment of New Technology for Patient Safety
- Webinar Recording – The State of the Evidence_ Empirical v Process Outcomes
- Webinar Recording – Unleashing the Power of the CNS Prescribing
- Webinar Recording – An Overview of the ANCC CNS Certification, How to Apply and How to Review
- Webinar Recording – CNS Strategies to Promote Communication and Build Relationships
- Webinar Recording – HIV Antiretroviral Update 2020
- Webinar Recording – Improving Antibiotics Stewardship Through Nurse Driven Penicillin Allergy Testing
- Webinar Recording – Leading Organizational Change: Implementation of a Stroke Pathway in a Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Webinar Recording – Mental Health Challenges During COVID-19
- Webinar Recording – Palliative Care: What Every CNS and Your Staffs Should Know
- Webinar Recording – Pathophysiology and Prevention of Non-Ventilator Hospital Acquired Pneumonia (NV-HAP): A CNS-Sensitive Outcome
- Webinar Recording – Psychometric Testing of the Alcohol Withdrawal Assessment Tool (AWAT)
- Webinar Recording – Resurgence of the CNS: Elevating the Visibility and Value of the CNS
- Webinar Recording – Stepping Up and Filling the Gaps in Mental Health Care: Strategies for CNS Practice at all Levels
- Webinar Recording – Structural Heart: Valvular Disease Symptoms/Diagnosis/Treatment
- Webinar Recording – The Evolution of Pressure Injury Prevention at a Large Academic Medical Center
- Webinar Recording – The Role of the CNS in Delirium Prevention and Treatment
- Webinar Recording – The Ups and Downs of Diabetes Management
- Webinar Recording – Utilizing Evidence Based Practice to Improve Vascular Access in the Acute Care Setting
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- “Be a Part of the Next Generation of Clinical Nurse Specialists” Webinar with NACNS, Hosted by the National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN)
- 2020 Annual Conference Programming Canceled for March 13
- 2020 Clinical Nurse Specialists Recognition Week Kicks-off September 1
- 2021 Federal Budget Cuts Key Programs that will not meet the Nation’s Growing Demand for Nursing Workforce and Research
- 2022 CNS Trends Look Good In The New Year
- 7 lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
- A Few Minutes With the 2021 CNS of the Year — Brittany Rhoades
- Access to CMS Call Recordings, Transcripts and Podcasts
- Air Force Colonel and Nurse Receives National Nursing Award
- Allowing Clinical Nurse Specialists Full Scope of Practice Improves Care for Our Veterans
- Allowing Clinical Nurse Specialists to Practice to the Extent of Their Education and Training Will Improve Access to Care For Our Veterans
- AMA’s Resolution Is Out of Step with Broader Health Care Community
- ANA Announces 2020: Year of the Nurse
- Ask Mitzi Anything: Different Types of CNSs & More
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- Atlanta Nurse Elected President of National Nursing Association
- Atlanta Nurse Elected to Serve as President-Elect of Leading National Nursing Association
- Atlanta Nurse Receives Award from National Nursing Association for Exemplary Work Teaching, Coaching and Mentoring Nursing Students
- Bay Area Nurse Honored for Exemplary Work Mentoring and Coaching Nursing Students
- Bloomington Nurse Elected to Serve as President of Leading National Nursing Association
- Brenda Lyon Leadership Award Recipient Announced
- Brenda Lyon Research Grant Awardees!
- Cal State, Dominguez Hills Faculty Member Receives Clinical Nurse Specialist Educator of the Year Award
- Canton Nurse Receives National Nursing Award
- Central Indiana Organization of Clinical Nurse Specialists is 2016 National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Affiliate of the Year
- Clinical Nurse Specialist Armed Forces Affiliate Announced By NACNS
- Clinical Nurse Specialist Institute Announces 2020 Class of Fellows
- Clinical Nurse Specialist Institute Announces 2023 Class of Fellows
- Clinical Nurse Specialist Institute Announces Inaugural Class of Fellows
- Clinical Nurse Specialist Nurse Researcher of the Year Announced
- Clinical Nurse Specialist of the Year Announced
- Clinical Nurse Specialist Preceptor of the Year Announced
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Are Uniquely Prepared to Manage Patients with Chronic Conditions
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Associations Sign Agreement Uniting 92,000 North American CNSs
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Call Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act ‘Good Start’ but Say It Falls Short
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Call for Greater Investment in Opioid Crisis
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Echo Nurses’ Need for Balance of Mind, Body and Spirit During National Nurses Week
- Clinical Nurse Specialists from Coast to Coast Honored for Improving Health and Mentoring the Next Generation of Nurse Leaders
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Inspire, Innovate and Influence
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Join the Front Lines of Infection Control
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Leader Commends Congress for ‘Potentially Life-Saving Move’ in Allowing APRNs to Prescribe Buprenorphine
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Praise 2016 National Nurses Week Theme: Creating a Culture of Safety
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Praise Leadership Focus of National Nurses Week
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Praise Supreme Court Decision for Reducing Restrictions on Scope of Practice for Health Care Providers
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Responsible for Entire Health Systems, But Issues Remain to Allow Full Scope of Practice
- Clinical Nurse Specialists RISE and Celebrate Their Role in Week-long Event
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Say Approval of Flibanserin Represents Important Advance in Women’s Sexual Health
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Say Investment in Opioid Abuse Much Needed
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Uniquely Qualified to Ensure High Quality Cost-Effective Health Care Essential to Meeting Nation’s Needs
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Urge Full-Practice Authority at VHA, Streamline Services for our Nation’s Veterans
- Clinical Nurse Specialists Well-Positioned to Do More to Address Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adult Patients
- Clinical Nurse Specialists: A Unique Nursing Role that Bridges the Gaps in Health Care
- Closed in Observance of 4th of July
- Closed in Observance of Memorial Day
- Colorado Nurse Elected to Board of Leading National Nursing Association
- Connecticut Nurse Honored with National Nursing Leadership Award
- CU Nursing Students to Present at NACNS Conference
- Cuts to Nursing Workforce and Health Programs Would be ‘Shortsighted and Potentially Devastating’
- Dallas Critical Care Nurse Elected to Board of Leading National Nursing Association
- Dallas Nurse Elected President-Elect of National Nursing Association
- Danville Nurse Awarded by National Nursing Association for Exemplary Work Teaching, Coaching and Mentoring Nursing Students
- Establishment of a clinical nurse specialist-led, virtual aneurysm surveillance clinic
- Esteemed Panel Composed of Leading Nursing, Health Experts Met to Revise, Validate Clinical Nurse Specialist Statement
- Failure to Classify Clinical Nurse Specialists as APRNs Is ‘Out of Step with the Nursing and Health Care Communities,’ Nurse Leader Warns
- Five Clinical Nurse Specialists Elected To NACNS Leadership
- Five Clinical Nurse Specialists Named To NACNS Board Of Directors
- Fort Wayne Nurse Elected to Board of Leading National Nursing Association
- Franciscan Alliance Nurse Receives National Nursing Leadership Award
- Fremont Nurse Elected to Board of Leading National Nursing Association
- Get to Know Your 2022 Annual Conference Keynote Speakers
- Get to Know Your New President, Mitzi Saunders
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Nurse Elected to Board of Leading National Nursing Association
- House and Senate Recognize ANA’s Year of the Nurse and Midwife
- House Passage of Nursing Workforce Bill a ‘Major Step to Improve the Nation’s Health
- How Do Clinical Nurse Specialists Build a Culture of Safety?
- How Do Clinical Nurse Specialists Improve Health Care?
- Important News! Join the CMS for a Call on COVID-19 with Nurses March 26, 2020 at 3:00 PM EST
- Improved Sleep in the Hospital
- Improving Patient Outcomes, Reducing Hospital Acquired Infections, Nurse-Led Research Among Key Topics at Philadelphia National Nurses’ Convention
- Indiana Nurse and Dean Honored with National Nursing Leadership Award
- Indiana School of Nursing Professor Receives Research Award from National Nursing Association
- Indiana University Health Nurse Elected to Serve as President-Elect of Leading National Nursing Association
- Indianapolis Nurse Elected to Board of Leading National Nursing Association
- Indianapolis Nurse Honored for Work as Clinical Nurse Specialist and Educator
- Indianapolis Nurse Receives Award from National Nursing Association for Exemplary Work Teaching, Coaching and Mentoring Nursing Students
- Indianapolis Nurse Receives National Nursing Association’s “President’s Award”
- Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Associate Professor Receives Clinical Nurse Specialist Educator of the Year Award
- Leading Advanced Practice Nursing Organization Announce New Board Members
- Leading Advanced Practice Nursing Organization Announces New Board Members
- Leading Nursing Association Calls for CMS Reforms to Better Address Opioid Misuse, Pain Management, Malnutrition and More
- Leading Nursing Association Selects Virtual, Inc. to Provide Association Management Services
- Loma Linda University Health Hospitals’ Radovich Receives National Honor, Named Preceptor of the Year by Leading Nursing Association
- Los Angeles VA Nurse Honored with National Nursing Service Award
- Lt Colonel David Bradley Armed Forces Affiliate Interview with NACNS
- Maureen Seckel Receives National Award for Quality Improvement Works as a Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Meet Your Board of Directors: Where They Went to CNS School and the Lessons They Took Away
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Nurse Honored for Exemplary Work Mentoring and Coaching Nursing Students
- Michigan Nurse Honored as Clinical Nurse Specialist of the Year
- Minneapolis Nurse Elected to Board of Leading National Nursing Association
- Minneapolis Nurse Receives National Nursing Leadership Award
- More Clinical Nurse Specialists Now Able to Practice, Prescribe Without Physician Supervision
- NACNS Announcement About Ann Hamric
- NACNS Announces Association’s Leadership Plan
- NACNS Board of Directors Endorses Cutting-Edge Clinical Nurse Specialist Education Criteria
- NACNS Bylaws – Proposed Changes Available for Member Review
- NACNS First President’s Award Recipient Announced
- NACNS Leaders Named American Academy of Nursing Fellows
- NACNS Member Input Needed for CMS!
- NACNS Opens Voting for Board and Officer Leadership Positions
- NACNS President Jan Powers To Present During National APP Week
- NACNS President Joins the White House and Nursing Organizations to Discuss the Affordable Care Act and Delivery System Transformation
- NACNS Releases APRN Consensus Model Implementation Statement
- NACNS Shows a Strong Start to 2023
- NACNS Supports Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- NACNS supports the AMSN Statement on The War in Ukraine
- NACNS supports the Comprehensive Addiction Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 2019
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists 2021 Award Winners Announced
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists 2022 Award Winners and New Board Announced
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Announces 2014 Board of Directors
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Announces 2016 Board of Directors
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Announces 2023 Award Winners
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Announces Opening of 2016 Workforce Survey
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Announces Task Forces to Address Malnutrition in Hospitalized Patients and Caring for Patients with Chronic Conditions
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Calls on MTV to Cancel Detrimental, Demeaning Reality Show
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Endorses Requiring Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree for Clinical Nurse Specialists
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Endorses Specialty Education and Certification for Clinical Nurse Specialists
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Honors Founding President, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses with President’s Award
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Honors Six Distinguished Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Honors Texas Health Nurse Researcher with President’s Award
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Joins National Effort to Combat Opioid Abuse
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Launches National Survey to Help Collect Data on Nurse Workforce
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Opens 2018 Workforce Survey
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Releases Census Results
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Urges Congress to Pass Comprehensive Policies to Combat the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
- National Nurses’ Convention Highlights Nurses as Agents of Change
- National Nursing Association Announces 2017 Board of Directors and Nominating Committee Members
- National Nursing Association Announces 2018 Board of Directors and Nominating Committee Members
- National Nursing Association Announces Research Agenda
- National Nursing Association Announces Task Force to Study Opioid Use and Pain Management in Clinical Nurse Specialists’ Practice
- National Nursing Association Honors Founder, Other Nurse Leaders and American Association of Critical Care Nurses at 20th Anniversary Annual Meeting
- National Nursing Association Honors Nurse Leaders From Across Nation
- National Nursing Association Opens 2019 Call for Abstracts
- National Nursing Leader Calls Budget Deal ‘A Step in the Right Direction’
- National Nursing Leader Commends House for Passing the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, Urges Senate to Quickly Do the Same
- National Nursing Organization Applauds Congress for Supporting Advanced Practice Nurses’ Practice, Workforce Development and Research
- National Nursing Organization Endorses Legislation to Raise Medicaid Reimbursement Rates for Health Providers, Expand Access to Care
- National Nursing Organization Honors Nurses from Across the Country for Leadership, Service and Mentoring
- National Nursing Organization Offers ‘Next Best Option’ to Certify FALS Clinical Nurse Specialists
- National Nursing Organization Urges Congress to Authorize Emergency Funding to Combat Zika Virus
- National Nursing Organization Urges Greater Funding for Nursing Education and Workforce Development
- National Nursing Organizations Release Women’s Health Clinical Nurse Specialist Competencies
- New Online Training Program Will Support, Increase Number of Clinical Nurse Specialist Preceptors
- New Tool Translates Value Impact for Clinical Nurse Specialists
- New Toolkit Will Help Clinical Nurse Specialists Lead Process to Safely Manage Alarms on Medical Devices, Reduce “Alarm Fatigue”
- News – Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2019
- Northeast Ohio Organization of Clinical Nurse Specialists is National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists’ Affiliate of the Year
- Nurse Leader Applauds Enactment of Opioid Bill, Calling It a ‘Measure the Country Urgently Needs’
- Nurse Leader Commends Reps. Tonko, Luján for Bill to Empower Clinical Nurse Specialists to Prescribe Medication for Opioid Addiction
- Nursing Association Invites Comments on Updated Statement on Education and Practice of Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Nursing Association Welcomes Comments on Core Competencies of Clinical Nurse Specialist Education and Practice
- Nursing Education, Alarm Fatigue, Reducing Hospital Readmissions, Reducing Patient Falls, Improving Pain Management Among Key Topics at National Nurses’ Convention in San Diego
- Nursing Group Launches New Institute to Support Clinical Nurse Specialist Education, Innovation and Research
- Nursing Is Where Change Is Constant And Innovation Is The Answer
- Nursing Leader Calls for Health Care Reform that Prioritizes Patients, Not Reduces Coverage
- Oklahoma Clinical Nurse Specialists Honored as NACNS Affiliate of the Year
- Oklahoma Nurse and Professor Honored with National Nursing Leadership Award
- Orange County Nurse Elected to Board of Leading National Nursing Association
- Orlando Health’s Susan Fowler Receives National Honor, Named Researcher of the Year by Leading Nursing Association
- Pamela Jane Nye: A Maverick Nurse Guiding Nurses in Today’s World of Burnout, Business and Entrepreneurship Challenges
- Philadelphia Area Nurse Honored with National Nursing Service Award
- Pinnacle Health System Nurse Receives National Nursing Service Award
- Podcast: Defining the Role and Career Potential of the Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Portland Nurse Receives National Nursing Service Award
- Prominent Advanced Practice Nursing Organization Announce New Board Members
- Prominent Clinical Nurse Specialists Join National Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Association Board
- Proposed Budget Would Reduce Growth and Drastically Reduce Health Care Workforce’s Capacity to Serve Patients, Communities
- Rachel Moody Inducted as President of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Read the most recent press release from our affiliate the Rhode Island Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists.
- Reading Hospital/Tower Health System’s Brittingham Receives National Honor, Named Clinical Nurse Specialist of the Year
- Refusing to Correctly Classify Clinical Nurse Specialists Skews Data
- RISE Up By Giving A Hand Up
- Sean M. Reed Elected President, Carrie Doyle Secretary/Treasurer and Judy Dusek, Kimberly Elgin and Phyllis Whitehead Directors of Leading National Nursing Association
- Stanford Health Care Nurse Receives National Nursing Award
- Stephen Patten Inducted as President of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Success Story: The CNS As Credentialed Provider
- Sue B. Davidson Service Award Recipient Announced
- Ted Walker: The stars align at PAMC
- Texas Christian University’s Kathy Baker Honored with National Nursing Service Award
- Texas Nurse Named Clinical Nurse Specialist Of The Year
- The American Health Care Act Threatens Health Care Affordability, Access and Delivery
- The National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Announces Media Partnership with Collaborative Approach to Diabetes Care Conference
- The National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Opposes Recent Policy by the American Medical Association House of Delegates to License and Regulate APRNs
- The National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Releases 2022 Census Results
- There’s far more to the ‘white uniform and cap’
- These are the most lucrative nursing careers right now
- United States and Canadian Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Associations Sign Agreement to Increase Visibility of North America’s 93,000 CNSs
- University of Colorado Nurse Honored with National Award
- University of Minnesota Nurse Receives National Nursing Leadership Award
- University of Oklahoma’s Susan Dresser Honored for Work as Clinical Nurse Specialist and Educator
- University of Wisconsin Associate Professor Nurse Receives Clinical Nurse Specialist Researcher of the Year Award
- USA Today letter-to-the-editor from NACNS President Sharon Horner About the VA Proposal Regarding APRN Scope of Practice
- UT Austin School of Nursing Associate Dean Receives National Nursing Service Award
- UT Professor Elected to Serve as President of Leading National Nursing Association
- VCU Health System Nurse Elected to Board of Leading National Nursing Association
- Virtual ceremony recognizes AFMC’s ‘best of the best’
- Visibility and Value of a Clinical Nurse Specialist Team: Illustrating Impact Through an Annual Report
- Who Are Clinical Nurse Specialists?
- Who Are Clinical Nurse Specialists? They’re Change Leaders!
- Wisconsin Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists is 2015 National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Affiliate of the Year
- You’re invited: Join a listening session with HHS and HRSA leadership
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