Nursing Leadership

As nursing has moved toward professionalization, roles for nurses in leadership positions have been created. Historically, the roles of charge nurse, nurse manager, nurse educator, and nurse leader, have existed to coordinate and improve care delivery. In recent times, advanced practice nursing education has been introduced in order to formalize and improve performance of this role, in order to ensure evidence-based practice and improve patient care outcomes. While the presence of CNS's and other graduate-prepared nurses has been shown to improve patient outcomes, the existence of problems with medical errors and cost escalation still extant in hospitals has prompted health care leaders to develop a new role addressing these problems. This nascent, credentialed role, created by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in consultation with nursing faculty, clinical experts and other stakeholders, is called a Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL).

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