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NEWS RELEASE
[Date]
CONTACT:
[Name]
[Phone number]
[Email]
Honoring the Contributions of Clinical Nurse Specialists to
Ensuring High Quality Patient Care
[Hospital] Will Celebrate Seventh Annual Clinical Nurse Specialist Recognition
Week with [Activity]
Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) are advanced practice nurses who play a unique and important
role in ensuring that patients receive high quality care based on the best and most recent research
evidence. Their contributions to improving health care and health care delivery will be celebrated
with a [activity] at [name of hospital/health care system] during the seventh annual National
CNS Recognition Week, September 1 – 7.
[If appropriate, more information about the event.]
[Insert quote from hospital or health care system spokesperson about the importance of clinical
nurse specialists.]
CNSs provide interprofessional, system-wide leadership. They create, monitor and evaluate
cost-effective, evidence-based policies, procedures, protocols and best practice models. At
[name of hospital/health care system], [describe a way in which a CNS-led team has had a direct
impact, for instance, reducing medication errors or obtaining Magnet status].
There are approximately 72,000 CNSs nationwide. The National Association of Clinical Nurse
Specialists (NACNS) established National CNS Recognition Week in 2009 to commemorate the
contributions of Hildegard Peplau to nursing and health care. Born in 1909, Dr. Peplau was a
prominent nursing theorist whose landmark book, Interpersonal Relations in Nursing,
emphasized the nurse-client relationship as the foundation for nursing practice and today serves
as the basis of the CNS role in health care.
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NACNS: Founded in 1995, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) is the
only association that represents the clinical nurse specialist (CNS), one of four of the advanced
practice registered nurse (APRN) nursing professionals. NACNS is dedicated to advancing CNS
practice and education, removing certification and regulatory barriers, and to assuring the
public access to quality CNS services.
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