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Clinical Nurse Leaders In The Community: Building An Academic Faculty Practice Partnership, Chenit Ong-Flaherty
Clinical Nurse Leaders In The Community: Building An Academic Faculty Practice Partnership, Chenit Ong-Flaherty
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) emphasis on preventive care and primary health has given community organizations and outpatient care environments renewed attention. Nursing has been offered the opportunity to lead healthcare into a new era. One of the two new nursing programs to be given life in this movement is the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL). The CNL is a graduate level educated nurse who specializes in healthcare systems leadership, a facilitator of care in the complex healthcare environments of today. They are equipped to see the wider and broader perspective of things, assess needs, research the best interventions for problems …