Jobs / Healthcare / 29-1141.04
Clinical Nurse Specialists
Direct nursing staff in the provision of patient care in a clinical practice setting, such as a hospital, hospice, clinic, or home. Ensure adherence to established clinical policies, protocols, regulations, and standards.
- US jobs
- 3,379,720 (SOC 29-1141 group, "Registered Nurses")
- Median wage
- $97,550 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of clinical nurse specialists?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Healthcare: Some tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: MedAgentBench, 69.7% of tasks completed.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark (figures for the SOC 29-1141 group).
- 8%Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient careNot measured
- 8%Monitor health conditions of humans or animalsNot measured
- 6%Analyze health or medical dataNot measured
- 6%Maintain health or medical recordsNot measured
- 5%Develop operational or technical procedures or standardsNot measured
- 5%Administer basic health care or medical treatmentsNot measured
- 4%Train others on health or medical topicsNot measured
- 4%Evaluate patient or client condition or treatment optionsNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Provide specialized direct and indirect care to inpatients and outpatients within a designated specialty, such as obstetrics, neurology, oncology, or neonatal care.
- Collaborate with other health care professionals and service providers to ensure optimal patient care.
- Read current literature, talk with colleagues, or participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in nursing.
- Develop, implement, or evaluate standards of nursing practice in specialty area, such as pediatrics, acute care, and geriatrics.
- Maintain departmental policies, procedures, objectives, or infection control standards.
- Instruct nursing staff in areas such as the assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of disability, illness, management, technology, or resources.
- Develop and maintain departmental policies, procedures, objectives, or patient care standards, based on evidence-based practice guidelines or expert opinion.
- Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice or organizational systems.
- Observe, interview, and assess patients to identify care needs.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to other caregivers to help facilitate their professional growth and development.
- Monitor or evaluate medical conditions of patients in collaboration with other health care professionals.
- Provide direct care by performing comprehensive health assessments, developing differential diagnoses, conducting specialized tests, or prescribing medications or treatments.
Other job titles for this occupation (27)
APN (Advanced Practice Nurse) · Board Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS-BC) · CNS (Clinical Nurse Specialist) · Critical Care CNS (Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist) · Emergency Clinical Nurse Specialist (Emergency CNS) · ICU CNS (Intensive Care Unit Clinical Nurse Specialist) · Neuroscience Clinical Nurse Specialist (Neuroscience CNS) · Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist (Pediatric CNS) · Psychiatric Adult Clinical Nurse Specialist (Psychiatric Adult CNS) · Trauma ICU CNS (Trauma Intensive Care Unit Clinical Nurse Specialist) · Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (Adult Health CNS) · Clinical Ambulatory Nurse · Clinical Medical Surgical Nurse · Clinical Nurse · Clinical Nurse Manager · Clinical Resource Nurse · Clinical Specialist Nurse · Community Health Clinical Nurse Specialist · Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist (Gerontological CNS) · Hospitalist NP (Hospitalist Nurse Practitioner) · Infection Preventionist (IP) · NP (Nurse Practitioner) · Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist (OCNS) · Pediatric Oncology Nurse · Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist (Psychiatric CNS) · Public Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (Public Health CNS) · Quality Management Nurse