Rassi, Cristin
Illinois Society for Advanced Practice NursingSupportIndividual
Summary: Cristin Rassi, a Clinical Nurse Specialist, supports the inclusion of CNSs in the proposed language. She argues that excluding them would delay patient care and suggests using the broader term "advanced practice nurses" to encompass all relevant roles.
Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS ) are licensed registered nurses who have graduate preparation (Master’s or Doctorate) in nursing as a Clinical Nurse Specialist.Clinical Nurse Specialists are expert clinicians in a specialized area of nursing practice. The specialty may be identified in terms of: A Population, (e.g. pediatrics, geriatrics, women’s health), a Setting (e.g. critical care, emergency room), a Disease or Medical Subspecialty (e.g. diabetes, pulmonary diseases), a Type of Care (e.g. psychiatric, rehabilitation), a Type of Problem (e.g. pain, wounds, stress).Clinical Nurse Specialist practice integrates nursing practice, which focuses on assisting pati ents in the prevention or resolution of illness, with medical diagnosis and treatment of disease, injury and disability. (NACNS.org)
Clinical Nurse Specialists must be included in the language as proposed, as CNSs order rehabilitative and respiratory services daily on their patients. Many CNSs are employed by hospitals.
Excluding CNSs from the proposed language will delay timely, effective, efficient care for patients needing these services. I order these services daily on my neurosurgical patients. The language should state"advanced practice nurses" which include (nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, and nurse midwife)
Sincerely,
Cristin Rassi APN, CNS
Illinois