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Orienting and Onboarding Clinical Nurse Specialists: A Process Improvement Project.

Mayra G Garcia1, Jennifer L Watt, Karie Falder-Saeed

  • 1Author Affiliations: Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialists, Children's Health Children's Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

Clinical Nurse Specialist CNS
|April 7, 2017
PubMed
Summary

Establishing a comprehensive onboarding program for Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) using core competencies ensures successful integration into healthcare systems. This structured approach aids new CNSs in their advanced practice roles.

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Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Healthcare Administration
  • Advanced Practice Nursing

Background:

  • Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) possess a distinct advanced practice role within healthcare.
  • Effective onboarding is crucial for integrating specialized roles into healthcare systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe a process for establishing a comprehensive orientation and onboarding program for newly hired Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists core competencies to guide the development of the onboarding process.
  • Created standardized documents, including a competency checklist, needs assessment template, and professional evaluation goals.
  • Revised existing documents to optimize the orientation workflow.

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Main Results:

  • Standardization of the onboarding and orientation process yielded positive outcomes.
  • Successfully onboarded and oriented three CNSs utilizing the developed process as of 2016.

Conclusions:

  • Specialized healthcare roles, such as CNSs, necessitate tailored onboarding and orientation strategies.
  • The developed process, guided by CNS core competencies, proved effective for orienting and onboarding new CNSs.