veloped in response to the intricacies of health care environments, the urgency to ensure security and high standards at the point of service, besides meeting the diverse client and heath care environment requirements. ("The Clinical Nurse Leader", n. d.)
             The CNL gets prepared at the Master's level as a generalist. The CNL manages and coordinates at the point of care in case of individuals and clinical cohorts to guarantee uniformity of clinical care and for resulting enhanced patient outcomes. The focus on CNL is on clinical care outcomes, making use of evidence-based practice to design personalized care. The CNL discharges its role as a part f the interdisciplinary health care team and shoulders accountability for patient outcomes through coordinating, delegating, and supervising the care delivered by the complete team, inclusive of doctors, pharmacists, social workers, licensed nurses, technicians, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners. The role of CNL is different from a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Practitioner, or Nurse Manager as the CNL functions as an advanced generalist who is charged with the clinical care outcomes for multiple specialties on one unit. Nevertheless, if the need arises, the CNL might call on the Clinical Nurse Specialist to give consultation when a specialist area of concern crops up. It has been observed that the CNL brings a high level of clinical competence and knowledge to the point of nursing care and caters as a vital resource for the entire health care team. The CNL functions in tandem with the multidisciplinary care team to provide quality care, and is administratively responsible to the Nurse Manager or equivalent. ("The Clinical Nurse Leader", n. d.)
             2) Important qualities and characteristics of nurse leader/leadership
             Effective Nursing Leadership is vital in every nursing roles regardless of nurse practicing in the sphere of education developing future leaders, or as a rese...