Blending the clinical nurse specialist functions and quality improvement leadership: a partnership in care.
Blending the clinical nurse specialist functions and quality improvement leadership has resulted in a number of positive outcomes including ongoing communication with and education of nursing staff, continuous holistic assessment of care, enhanced clinical judgment and practice, theory-generated interventions, validation of nurses' role in health promotion incorporation of research into practice, and team building. It has also generated a positive regard for the value of the advanced level practitioner, represented a cost-effective approach, empowered other nurses to utilize their knowledge in developing a nursing plan of care, and developed nurses' ability to articulate their role, which for most has become the hallmark of quality care.
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Department of Nursing, Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center, Utica, NY.
D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009518:New York; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*