title: Networking: a strategy for strengthening the role of the clinical nurse specialist.
abstract: Networking has become a powerful means of creating change. Potentially for the clinical nurse specialist (CNS), networking can provide mutual sharing of information and resources for the purpose of improving patient care and facilitate the exchange of information in situations where there is more information than one can possibly absorb. CNSs must network with one another and with other colleagues in practice, management, and/or education.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Fain
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Viau
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support