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Clinical Nurse Specialist week 2021 September 1-7

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CNS week is an annual event that acknowledges the contributions of the 89,000 Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) in North America. CNSs are an elite and unique group of advanced practice nurses (APRN) that are the only APRNs qualified to integrate care across the three spheres of influence in health care: patient, nurse, and system.

NACNS established National CNS Recognition Week (CNS week) in 2009 to commemorate and celebrate the birth of Hildegard Peplau, who was born on September 1, 1909. Dr. Peplau was a prominent nursing theorist whose landmark book, Interpersonal Relations in Nursing, emphasized the nurse-client relationship as the foundation for nursing practice and today serves as the basis of the CNS role in health care.

Hildegard Peplau, RN, Ed.D. (1909 – 1999), is the founding mother
of the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) role. In 1956, Dr. Peplau established the first nursing master’s degree program with a focus exclusively on clinical practice. Graduates of this program were called clinical specialists, making Rutgers University School of Nursing the birthplace of the CNS role.

Dr. Peplau emphasized the nurse-client relationship as the foundation for nursing practice and the partnership model that focused on a shared experience between a nurse and a client through observation, description, formulation, interpretation, validation, and intervention


Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th Century. As the 21st Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace – The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders — around the world — will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century. – Hildegard Peplau