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

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