title: The clinical nurse specialist as a case manager in acute care.
abstract: The role of the clinical nurse specialist continues to evolve. The clinical nurse specialist is viewed as an educator, change agent, researcher, consultant, caregiver, and, currently, case manager. At a nonprofit 250-bed acute-care facility in the Northeast, the role of the CNS is ill defined, and the CNS is considered part of the staff education department. Through a review of the literature and a personal interview with a clinical nurse specialist from the facility, a new role, the critical-care case manager will be defined as a proposed solution toward increasing the visibility and economic worth of the clinical nurse specialist.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Jezewski
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease / Q000451:nursing*; D019090:Case Management; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000379:methods*