title: Capturing the multiple contributions of the CNS role: a criterion-based evaluation tool.
abstract: The CNSs at a community hospital found that tools used to evaluate their performance did not reflect the wide variety of activities native to the CNS role within the institution. A six-member working group came to consensus on practice behaviors, and ordered them into a hierarchy of performance levels. The resulting role description and evaluation tool provides flexibility in application to unit-based, centralized, and specialty-based positions. The benefits of the new role description and evaluation tool to the organization and individual are multiple and serve to highlight the unique talents the role can bring to nursing.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ellsworth-Wolk
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: DeBlase
mesh_terms: D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D007587:Job Description; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000592:standards*