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Clinical Specialist in Community Health Nursing: Advanced Practice Fit or Misfit?
Author(s) -
Ervin Naomi E.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2007.00656.x
Subject(s) - certification , clinical nurse specialist , specialty , nursing , community health , medicine , clinical practice , occupational health nursing , advanced practice nursing , public health , family medicine , health care , nurse practitioners , health education , political science , law
The purpose of this paper is to address several questions and issues about the clinical specialist role in community health nursing. A brief history of the development of the clinical specialist role sets the background for a discussion of how the community health nurse specialist fits within advanced practice nursing. The rationale for including the community health nurse clinical specialist role with other specialist roles is presented. The purpose and importance of certification at the advanced practice level in community health nursing are presented. Continued discussion about these and other issues of importance for the specialty is encouraged.