Section 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 progra m 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".Added by New York Laws 2013, ch. 364,Sec. 1, eff. 9/27/2014.