Abstract
In today’s healthcare system there is much controversy regarding the role and value of clinical nurse specialists. This article describes a mixed-method approach to the workload of lung cancer clinical nurse specialists (CNSs), and translates this into financial value. It calculates, for example, that these specialists work an average of 316.8 hours unpaid overtime each per year, and estimates on the basis of the data gathered that, as a group, CNSs in England contribute 71,280 hours of unpaid overtime – or £1,475,496 – to the health economy annually. The data underline the effectiveness of care these nurse specialists give to patients with lung cancer and their value to their trusts. abstract
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