title: Using a scorecard to demonstrate clinical nurse specialists' contributions.
abstract: Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) have the expertise to influence change at the patient, nurse, and system levels. They are clinical experts who understand the challenges of the current health care environment: decreasing costs, ensuring high-quality care, and achieving outcomes. Evidence has demonstrated CNSs' influence on improving patient outcomes. Although CNSs often lead the work, they can be invisible when the outcomes are presented. A scorecard to display this work could be invaluable to the CNS role, as it would bring transparency to the evidence-based work done. This article describes the development of a CNS scorecard in a 627-bed tertiary hospital.
authors.affiliation: Stacy Jepsen is Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical/Surgical/Neuroscience Critical Care, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, 800 East 28th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407 (stacy.jepsen@allina.com).
authors.forename: Stacy
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jepsen
mesh_terms: D057179:Advanced Practice Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D064648:Critical Care Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000592:standards*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care