Losing Sight: The Importance of Nurse Leaders’ Maintaining Patient and Staff Advocacy
Department
Wellstar School of Nursing
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 8-2020
Embargo Period
9-20-2022
Abstract
Competing priorities of operational directives and efficiency projects can leave even the most experienced nurse executives with little time for the core business of caring for people. Losing sight of this imperative is not uncommon. This article examines the caring values of nurse executives. Two scenarios are provided: sharing the consequences when caring is lost, but then regained by applying the 5 essentials of nurse executive caring values.
Journal Title
Nurse Leader
Journal ISSN
1541-4612
Volume
18
Issue
4
First Page
329
Last Page
332
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2020.04.005