All Aboard: Laying the Tracks for Streamlining the CNS Onboarding Process
Topic of Interest
Capture Value of the CNS
Abstract
The clinical nurse specialist role can vary across practice areas and health system service lines with each area assuming responsibility for the coordination of onboarding and orientation practices. An absence of standardization in the operations, onboarding, and orientation of the clinical nurse specialist role has resulted in a lack of role clarity and visibility within organization in addition to a decrease in job satisfaction.
The following presentation highlights the findings of a collaborative of clinical nurse specialists from the unit level and system-level who was allocated the responsibility of investigating current organizational practices regarding onboarding by the chief nursing executive. Onboarding consists of the recruitment, credentialing, and interviewing of applicants for clinical nurse specialist positions within the organization. The overall aim of findings is to improve and standardize practices associated with the role within the organization to optimize role visibility and utilization.