Foiles, Shannon
OSF Saint Francis Medical CenterSupportIndividual
Summary: Shannon Foiles, a Clinical Nurse Specialist at OSF Healthcare, supports the inclusion of CNSs in the proposed language. She argues that excluding them would delay timely and effective care for patients requiring rehabilitative and respiratory services.
To whom it may concern,
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 patients 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 below, as CNSs order rehabilitative and respiratory services daily on their patients. I am an example of one of the many CNSs that are employed by hospitals that provide this service for patients on a daily basis. Excluding CNSs from the proposed language will delay timely, effective, efficient care for patients needing these services. Please feel free to contact me for any furture questions or examples that support the importance of this proposed change. Thank you,
Shannon Foiles MSN, APN, ACNS-BC
shannon.r.foiles@osfhealthcare.org