Help needed please...clarification on role of CNL

[mac1226]

Hello everyone! I am new to the site and have some questions please. I am currently a BSN-DNP student and recently decided this may not be my true passion. Can anyone provide information on the Clinical Nurse Leader? I have researched this topic, but really still unsure on where CNL's work, salary, usual hours, and the need for CNL's. Any information will be helpful :)

Thank you in advance!

The DNP forum may not generate as many answers as you'd like. My limited perspective from Northern California is that the CNL role is DOA except in the VA settings. I went through a CNL program and I think the education is excellent but it's a certification looking for a position.

[smoup]

I highly recommend seeing if you can get a copy of "Initiating and Sustaining the CNL Role." I am going to be started a CNL program in the fall and the first chapter of this book really spelled it out for me better than anything else I'd found.

There were examples of CNL's who had saved the hospital/organization they worked for $500,000 in a single year due to some of the initiatives they started. I think the one that saved $500,000 dropped the PICC line infections from 76 to zero in 12 months.

Check out this thread https://allnurses.com/clinical-nurse-specialists/cns-vs-cnl-444661-page4.html and in particularly the post by brianprimm who works as a CNL.