title: The clinical nurse leader: helping psychiatric mental health nurses transform their practice.
abstract: The national movement to transform the health care delivery systems must include a focus on mental health treatment. To address similar deficits across other practice domains, the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) role has been created. The CNL is a master's degree that prepares a nurse to use a systems perspective to improve outcomes for a cohort of patient, deliver care based on best practices, and coordinate care in a multidisciplinary team. Applying the CNL role to mental health care could help psychiatric mental health nursing be at the forefront in the transformation of mental health care delivery.
authors.affiliation: University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, seed@usfca.edu.
authors.forename: Mary S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Seed
authors.forename: Diane J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Torkelson
authors.forename: Judith F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Karshmer