From Bedside to Bottom Line: The ROI of Clinical Nurse Scientists in Health Systems
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 Export to Your Calendar 11/12/2025
When: November 12, 2025
2:00 PM
Where: United States
Contact: Heysha Garcia Melendez
hgarciamelendez@aannet.org


Online registration is available until: 11/11/2025
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Clinical Nurse Scientists bring invaluable expertise to a variety of health care settings. They conduct research, work directly with patients, and develop evidence-based interventions. In this webinar, hosted by the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Clinical Nurse Scientist Special Interest Group, participants will hear from a panel of Clinical Nurse Scientists stemming from different employers who will discuss how to address ROI, including: how to quantify the impact of the Clinical Nurse Scientist role; avenues to connect with the finance department on tracking cost savings tied to nursing research; and how Clinical Nurse Scientists can discuss their contributions to help gain support for their work and their role on the health care team. 

Registration is open to CANS members at no additional cost, and non-members at $65. This webinar will be 60 minutes and 1 nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) contact hour will be available for purchase at $25 in the registration portal.

 

Learning Outcomes:

As a result of participating in this webinar, attendees will:

  1. Identify strategies for articulating the economic ROI and impact of Clinical Nurse Scientists to financial decision makers in the health care setting.      

Speakers:

Lina Najib Kawar, PhD, RNRM, RN, CNS, FAAN
Nurse Scientist
Regional Director, SCAL/HI Nursing Research/EBP Program
Southern California and Hawaii Patient Care Services
Kaiser Permanente

Helene Moriarty, PhD, RN, FAAN 
Professor, Diane L. & Robert F. Moritz Jr, Endowed Chair in Nursing Research 
Villanova University 
Nurse Scientist; Co-Program Director of VA Interprofessional Fellowship in Patient Safety, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Olga Yakusheva, PhD, MSPE, RN, FAAN
Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Moderator
Cheryl Westlake, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FHFSA, FAHA, FAAN 
Director of Nursing Research
MemorialCare

Nursing Continuing Professional Development

The American Academy of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

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