Overview of Nurse Leadership

As the largest and most trusted health care discipline, nurses are uniquely positioned to provide leadership in the delivery of quality care. Nowhere is this more obvious than in long-term care settings that service the growing population of older adults. Long-term care settings are places where nursing skills and interests are particularly well matched with residents ’ needs.1 They are also settings where there is enormous potential for nurses to innovate and implement models of professional practice that successfully integrate these settings into the mainstream of health care.
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research