As a registered Clinical Nurse Specialist in Virginia and President-Elect of the Virginia Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, I support the NOIRA and look forward to working with the Board of Nursing to update the current clinical nurse specialist regulations to support CNS registration and continued practice in Virginia, and to working collaboratively to align the Code of Virginia regarding CNS practice with the Consensus Model for APRN Regulation.

Cindy Ward, DNP, RN-BC, CMSRN, ACNS-BC