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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Evaluation Efforts

• Standardized Evaluation Framework based on survey
  done of practice partners (Evaluation
  Subcommittee)
• 4 Domains (Nortons Balanced Scorecard)
• Financial
• Patient satisfaction
• Quality/internal processes
• Innovations
• Pilot conducted at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare
  System (2006) (James Harris)
• Positive outcomes in just 3 months

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Evaluation Efforts

• 4 partnerships are replicating evaluation at gt 8
  healthcare facilities acute community hospital,
  for-profit, and academic medical center
• Student-Graduate database surveys to be sent out
  12 months post-graduation to both graduates and
  supervisors
• Data re education programs, preparation, roles
  working
• Contributions to health care delivery
• Qualitative Study by RWJ Fellow, Rose Sherman
  (100 CNL graduates)
• External Funding

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Current Partnerships and Sites

• 90 schools and 191 partners in initiative June
  2007
• 35 states 1 territory, high magnet
  participation
• Sending out invitation for additional schools to
  join initiative
• Per AACN IDS, Fall 2007, 69 schools report CNL
  programs (1,270 enrollees) 19 schools report
  generalist programs (3,772) (?number that meet
  CNL eligibility criteria.

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CNL 2007

• CNL is now a registered trademark.
• AACN will continue 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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Current Strategic Areas of Focus CNL Steering
Committee

• CNL Partnership Conference
• Membership Network
• Marketing Plan
• CNO Network
• Evaluation of Education and Practice Outcomes
• CNL Summit

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Membership Network/Organization

• Networking, information/resource sharing,
  continuing education, and providing
  credibility/visibility for the role
• Planning group led by graduates from the
  Universities of Portland,Southern Maine and
  Vanderbilt University, advised by Dr. Michael
  Bleich and Dr. James Harris
• Opportunity to meet at this meeting
• AACN Board solicited proposal re. support for
  first 3-5 years.

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Marketing Plan

• Information outcomes dissemination are key,
  includes identifying experts, authors, and key
  stakeholders partners
• Template for schools to submit abstracts of
  capstone projects which highlight the role of the
  CNL and impact on quality patient outcomes
• Conference compendium, in electronic and hard
  copy formats, of abstract, poster, and speaker
  presentations will be created highlighting
  outcomes in practice and education
• CNL Brochure and Newsletter

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Marketing Plan

• Speakers Bureau - identify experts, slide
  template, handouts
• Department of Veterans Affairs has created two
  new CNL videos a short 5-minute promotional
  video for CEOs and a longer 15-minute video that
  focuses on the CNL role. Polly Bednash Cathy
  Rick taped brief segments for the longer video.

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CNO Network

• A CNO leadership group, comprised of 16
  representatives from practice and education, has
  accepted an invitation to participate in a Think
  Tank, April 16-17, 2008 in Washington, DC.
• Purpose is to design and create a CNO Network
  patterned after other CEO networks
• The CNO Network will be created around the CNL
  initiative but will provide a forum for the
  larger issue of innovation in nursing practice

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Evaluation

• Representatives from three CNL partnerships and
  the DVA are continuing to collect and analyze CNL
  outcome data.
• Sites are reporting positive outcomes related to
  the implementation of the CNL role.
• Goal is to work with sites to publish outcomes

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CNL Summit

• AACN and the CNL Steering Committee have been
  invited to co-sponsor and co-plan with the
  Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) a CNL
  Summit.
• The DVA has secured funding for the Summit and
  the national event planning office has been asked
  to identify a location for the National Summit in
  Fall 2008.
• Stay tuned

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CNL Certification

• The CNL is a unique credential that recognizes
• graduates of masters and post-masters
• Clinical Nurse LeaderSM programs and who
• have demonstrated accepted standards of
• practice.

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CNL Certification

• Managed by the Commission on Nurse
• Certification (CNC)
• Autonomous arm of AACN
• 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 CNL faculty

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CNL Certification

• Application
• Examination
• Format
• Dates

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CNL Certification

• Pilot Exam Fall 2006
• More than 200 have earned the CNL certification
• Resource Materials
• www.aacn.nche.edu