2014 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 8 - THE PROFESSIONS
Article 139 - (6900 - 6911) NURSING
6911 - Certification as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS).

  6911.  Certification  as  a clinical nurse specialist (CNS). 1. For
  issuance of a certificate to practice as  a  clinical  nurse  specialist
  under  section  six  thousand  nine  hundred  two  of  this article, the
  applicant shall fulfill the following requirements:
(a) file an application with the department;
(b) be licensed as a registered professional nurse in this state;
(c)  (i)  have  satisfactorily  completed   an   educational   program
  registered by the department including a master's or doctoral degree, or
  a  post-master's certificate from a program acceptable to the department
  which prepares graduates to practice as CNSs and which is accredited  by
  a  national  nursing  accredited  body acceptable to the department, and
  (ii) meets all other  requirements  established  by  the  department  to
  practice  as  a  clinical  nurse  specialist,  or  (iii)  have  received
  educational  preparation  determined  by  the  department  to   be   the
  substantial  equivalent of subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph;
  and
(d) pay a fee to the department of  fifty  dollars  for  each  initial
  certificate   authorizing  clinical  nurse  specialist  practice  and  a
  triennial registration fee of thirty dollars.  Registration  under  this
  section  shall  be  coterminous  with  the  clinical  nurse specialist's
  registration as a professional nurse.
2. Only a person certified under this  section  shall  use  the  title
  "clinical nurse specialist" or the designation "CNS".