Promoting a Strategic Approach to Clinical Nurse Leader Practice Integration

@article{Williams2016PromotingAS,
  title={Promoting a Strategic Approach to Clinical Nurse Leader Practice Integration},
  author={Marjory Williams and Alice Avolio and Kate M. Ott and Rebecca S Miltner},
  journal={Nursing Administration Quarterly},
  year={2016},
  volume={40},
  pages={24–32}
}
The Office of Nursing Services of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) piloted implementation of the clinical nurse leader (CNL) into the care delivery model and established a strategic goal in 2011 to implement the CNL role across the VA health care system. The VA Office of Nursing Services CNL Implementation and Evaluation (CNL I&E) Service was created as one mechanism to facilitate that goal in response to a need identified by facility nurse executives for consultative support for CNL… 
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Implementation of the Clinical Nurse Leader Role in the Veterans Health Administration
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Roles enacted by Clinical Nurse Leaders across the healthcare spectrum: A systematic literature review.
Clarifying Role Expectations and Practice Standards Using a Clinical Nurse Leader Professional Practice Model Illustration
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A graphic illustration was developed to facilitate discussion and provide insight into the clinical nurse leader (CNL) role, with the aim of creating consensus on the CNL role functions and expectations, and participants reported a significant improvement in their understanding and importance of theCNL role.
Refining and validating a conceptual model of Clinical Nurse Leader integrated care delivery
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The validated model articulates an explanatory pathway of Clinical Nurse Leader integrated care delivery, including clinical Nurse Leader practices that result in improved care dynamics and patient outcomes that can be deployed across the healthcare spectrum.

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