Susan BakewellSachs, PhD, RN

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• Susan Bakewell-Sachs, PhD, RN
• Chair, CNL Steering Committee
• Tracy Lofty, MSA, CAE
• Director of Certification, AACN

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CNL First 3 Years Implementation Task Force

• Built partnerships
• Developed curriculum framework/resources/immersion
  guidelines
• Developed Communication/diffusion of learning
  strategies
• Enrolled first students
• First graduates
• Certification examination

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Tools and Resources

• Curriculum Framework
• End-of-Program competencies Required Clinical
  Experiences
• Comparison of CNL and CNS roles
• How You Know A CNL when you See one!
• CNL Tool Kit resources for practice education
  as partnerships work to implement CNL
• Practice Template for Change

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2008-2009 Strategic Areas of Focus CNL Steering
Committee

• Tucson CNL Partnership Conference
• Clinical Nurse Leader Association (CNLA)
• Marketing role and expanding partnerships
• CNO Network, Staff Nurse Advisory Panel
• Evaluation of Education and Practice Outcomes
• AACN VA CNL Summit
• Curriculum Initiatives, including statement on
  post-masters programs

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Current Partnerships and Sites

• 102 schools and 203 healthcare practice partners
  in initiative
• 38 states 1 territory
• Additionally, 15 schools are in planning or
  developmental stages

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CNL 2007

• CNL is a registered trademark.
• AACN continues to use the SM designation after
  the term, Clinical Nurse Leader SM, to indicate
  the organization has applied for a trademark and
  does lay claim to this term as well.

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Last Years CNL Partnership Conference in Tucson,
AZ

• Over 200 attendees, faculty, administrators,
  students and graduates
• Excellent evaluations for the podium
  presentations, podium abstracts, and posters

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2009 CNL Summit Highlights!

• Over 400 registrants that include CNLs, students,
  administrators, deans and faculty
• 33 abstract presentations 25 poster
  presentations
• Initial meeting of the CNLA

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Clinical Nurse Leader Association

• Networking, information/resource sharing,
  continuing education, and providing
  credibility/visibility for the role
• Exploratory membership network meeting held in
  Tucson
• Advised by steering committee members Dr. Michael
  Bleich and Dr. James Harris
• Now the Clinical Nurse Leader Association
• steering committee in place, by-laws drafted
• Inaugural meeting here!

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Marketing and Partnership Expansion

• Information outcomes dissemination are key,
  includes identifying experts, authors, and key
  stakeholders partners
• Development of online CNL Speakers Bureau
• CNL DVD created by the Dept of Veterans Affairs
• CNL brochure
• Regional meeting template for potential
  education-practice partnerships
• Initial meeting October 3, 2008 Washington DC
  Veterans Affairs Medical Center
• One day format presentations and small group
  discussions

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CNO Advisory Leadership Think Tank

• 20 nurse leaders representing practice and
  education, met for a Think Tank, April 16-17,
  2008 in Washington, DC.
• Outcomes article on CNL and the future of
  healthcare, advocacy for sessions at the 2010
  AONE conference, connection with national long
  term care nurse leadership, and expansion of
  advocacy regarding the CNL role
• The CNO Advisory Leadership group was created
  around the CNL initiative but goal is that it
  will provide a forum for the larger issue of
  innovation in nursing practice

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Staff Nurse Advisory Panel

• Advisory role to CNL Steering Committee and AACN
  Board of Directors
• To provide organizational perspectives on the
  staff nurse within current health care system and
  information on CNL role clarity, implementation,
  and staff nurse/CNL collaboration
• Initial meeting August 13-14, 2008 included
  representatives from 7 organizations, including
  ANA, NGNA, RNs Working Together (AFL/CIO), APHA,
  AACN (critical care), AAACN (ambulatory care),
  and a HC setting where CNL role has been
  implemented.

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Evaluation of Education and Practice Outcomes

• Steering Committee and the Commission on Nurse
  Certification (CNC) working collaboratively to
  assess program type and certification outcomes
• CNL and immediate supervisor one-year post
  graduation surveys piloted fall 2008 and being
  sent to all who applied for CNL certification
  prior to February 2008
• Purpose to identify practice locations,
  settings, adequacy of preparation practice in the
  role, and impact on practice setting or patient
  outcomes

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Evaluation of Education and Practice Outcomes

• Work is ongoing with practice sites to
  disseminate outcome data in a variety of venues,
  including conference presentations and healthcare
  journals
• July 2008 series of articles on CNL in Journal of
  Nursing Management
• Article (accepted for publication) on the impact
  CNL is making on patient care outcomes in VA
  facilities in Nursing Economics
• Regional and national evaluation being discussed

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CNL Certification

• Commission on Nurse Certification (CNC)
• Governed by Board of Commissioners
• nine voting members
• (practice, education, and public representation)

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CNL Certification

• Eligibility
• Registered Nurse licensure
• Graduation from a CNL masters or post-masters
  program
• Waiver for faculty of existing CNL education
  programs (expires December 31, 2012)
• Successful completion of certification exam
• Over 600 certificants (1/09)

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CNL Certification

• Exam Site Registration
• Institution/School of Nursing CNL Education
  Program Verification Form
• Select exam date within testing period
• Notify CNC (cnl_at_aacn.nche.edu) and Applied
  Measurement Professionals (wta_at_goamp.com)

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CNL Certification
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CNL Certification

• CNL Recertification
• RN Licensure
• Professional Practice (4000 hours)
• Contact Hours/Continuing Education (75)
• Outcomes and Professional Practice
• Documentation

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CNL Certification

• Resource Materials
• www.aacn.nche.edu/CNC
• www.aacn.nche.edu/CNL
• Contact Information
• tlofty_at_aacn.nche.edu
• asinghat_at_aacn.nche.edu