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Dear AAACN Open Forum Community,
Do you have Nurse Consultant roles within your organizations?

• Are they clinical or administrative?
• What level of education, certification, and or experience is required? 

Thank you for your thoughts in advance, 

Cynthia Murray AAACN BOD

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Cynthia Murray BN AMB-BC LNC
Nurse Manager Clinical Operations
Veterans Health Administration
Southern NJ and Delaware
(609)742-4928
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Hi Cynthia, 

We have a practice and education team the consists of 3 nurse educators, 3 clinical practice specialists / CNS, 1 outreach and telehealth, and 1 triage specialist. We work on projects across the division, but also act as consults to our clinic leaders in various areas and through out the system.  

Our practice specialists primarily focus on risk mitigation, program development, policy development, compliance, scope of practice, role utilization (top of scope practice), EBP/QI/PI/research, team member development, and standardization of practice when appropriate.  Our CES role are experts at competency management, education and curriculum development, role development, orientation/onboarding, research/EBI/QI, and collaborative practice (with the organization and outside the organization. Our outreach and telehealth specialist works to standardize practice, operations and improve quality in these areas. The triage specialist guides review, development, and implementation of specialty triage guidelines while ensuring quality. Our roles have some crossover and we partner closely together as well as with our clinical leaders, direct care team members and SMEs. 

Please reach out if you have any additional questions or would like to set up some time to discuss more.

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Rebecca Newman MS RN CPN
Clinical Practice Specialist
Children's Hospital of Colorado
Westminster CO
(231)944-4175
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-08-2022 23:06
From: Cynthia Murray
Subject: Ambulatory Care Nurse Consultant

Dear AAACN Open Forum Community,
Do you have Nurse Consultant roles within your organizations?

• Are they clinical or administrative?
• What level of education, certification, and or experience is required? 

Thank you for your thoughts in advance, 

Cynthia Murray AAACN BOD

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Cynthia Murray BN AMB-BC LNC
Nurse Manager Clinical Operations
Veterans Health Administration
Southern NJ and Delaware
(609)742-4928
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HI Rebecca, 
I am curious about how many practices your staff outlined above are covering, i.e. how big is your medical group?
We are about 115 sites and growing, PC and multispecialty, struggling to find a good model to meet the needs but l like the concept you have outlined.

Thank you,
Luan C

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Luan Cox RN
WakeMed
Raleigh NC
(919)622-1527
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-14-2022 13:05
From: Rebecca Newman
Subject: Ambulatory Care Nurse Consultant

Hi Cynthia, 

We have a practice and education team the consists of 3 nurse educators, 3 clinical practice specialists / CNS, 1 outreach and telehealth, and 1 triage specialist. We work on projects across the division, but also act as consults to our clinic leaders in various areas and through out the system.  

Our practice specialists primarily focus on risk mitigation, program development, policy development, compliance, scope of practice, role utilization (top of scope practice), EBP/QI/PI/research, team member development, and standardization of practice when appropriate.  Our CES role are experts at competency management, education and curriculum development, role development, orientation/onboarding, research/EBI/QI, and collaborative practice (with the organization and outside the organization. Our outreach and telehealth specialist works to standardize practice, operations and improve quality in these areas. The triage specialist guides review, development, and implementation of specialty triage guidelines while ensuring quality. Our roles have some crossover and we partner closely together as well as with our clinical leaders, direct care team members and SMEs. 

Please reach out if you have any additional questions or would like to set up some time to discuss more.

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Rebecca Newman MS RN CPN
Clinical Practice Specialist
Children's Hospital of Colorado
Westminster CO
(231)944-4175

Original Message:
Sent: 06-08-2022 23:06
From: Cynthia Murray
Subject: Ambulatory Care Nurse Consultant

Dear AAACN Open Forum Community,
Do you have Nurse Consultant roles within your organizations?

• Are they clinical or administrative?
• What level of education, certification, and or experience is required? 

Thank you for your thoughts in advance, 

Cynthia Murray AAACN BOD

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Cynthia Murray BN AMB-BC LNC
Nurse Manager Clinical Operations
Veterans Health Administration
Southern NJ and Delaware
(609)742-4928
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Hi Luan, 

You definitely have more locations than we have. I am not sure the exact amount of service lines we cover, but it is around 30 and growing, over 120 sub subspecialty, 8 network locations, and have about 600,000 clinic visits a year. For outreach, we have 22 different sites with multiple clinics at each across several states. Our model has changed over the past year as we have grown. We started with CPS and CES pairs. These two individuals would cover specific service lines, For example, I cover with a CES partner all our medical service lines and Primary care clinics. We have kept this model, but we have also had a CNS join our team recently that overs one location. In addition, one of our CES's has shifted her focus to Ambulatory wide program development. We have our own specialties where we are the SME of from a systems perspective also. We partner closely together to try to prevent working in cilos and work toward standardizing when possible.

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Rebecca Newman MS RN CPN
Clinical Practice Specialist
Children's Hospital of Colorado
Westminster CO
(231)944-4175
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-15-2022 08:50
From: Luan Cox
Subject: Ambulatory Care Nurse Consultant

HI Rebecca, 
I am curious about how many practices your staff outlined above are covering, i.e. how big is your medical group?
We are about 115 sites and growing, PC and multispecialty, struggling to find a good model to meet the needs but l like the concept you have outlined.

Thank you,
Luan C

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Luan Cox RN
WakeMed
Raleigh NC
(919)622-1527

Original Message:
Sent: 06-14-2022 13:05
From: Rebecca Newman
Subject: Ambulatory Care Nurse Consultant

Hi Cynthia, 

We have a practice and education team the consists of 3 nurse educators, 3 clinical practice specialists / CNS, 1 outreach and telehealth, and 1 triage specialist. We work on projects across the division, but also act as consults to our clinic leaders in various areas and through out the system.  

Our practice specialists primarily focus on risk mitigation, program development, policy development, compliance, scope of practice, role utilization (top of scope practice), EBP/QI/PI/research, team member development, and standardization of practice when appropriate.  Our CES role are experts at competency management, education and curriculum development, role development, orientation/onboarding, research/EBI/QI, and collaborative practice (with the organization and outside the organization. Our outreach and telehealth specialist works to standardize practice, operations and improve quality in these areas. The triage specialist guides review, development, and implementation of specialty triage guidelines while ensuring quality. Our roles have some crossover and we partner closely together as well as with our clinical leaders, direct care team members and SMEs. 

Please reach out if you have any additional questions or would like to set up some time to discuss more.

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Rebecca Newman MS RN CPN
Clinical Practice Specialist
Children's Hospital of Colorado
Westminster CO
(231)944-4175

Original Message:
Sent: 06-08-2022 23:06
From: Cynthia Murray
Subject: Ambulatory Care Nurse Consultant

Dear AAACN Open Forum Community,
Do you have Nurse Consultant roles within your organizations?

• Are they clinical or administrative?
• What level of education, certification, and or experience is required? 

Thank you for your thoughts in advance, 

Cynthia Murray AAACN BOD

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Cynthia Murray BN AMB-BC LNC
Nurse Manager Clinical Operations
Veterans Health Administration
Southern NJ and Delaware
(609)742-4928
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Forgot to answer your other few questions. We all all nursing and the majority of us are Master prepared. We all hold at least one certification and experience varies.

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Rebecca Newman MS RN CPN
Clinical Practice Specialist
Children's Hospital of Colorado
Westminster CO
(231)944-4175
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-08-2022 23:06
From: Cynthia Murray
Subject: Ambulatory Care Nurse Consultant

Dear AAACN Open Forum Community,
Do you have Nurse Consultant roles within your organizations?

• Are they clinical or administrative?
• What level of education, certification, and or experience is required? 

Thank you for your thoughts in advance, 

Cynthia Murray AAACN BOD

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Cynthia Murray BN AMB-BC LNC
Nurse Manager Clinical Operations
Veterans Health Administration
Southern NJ and Delaware
(609)742-4928
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