Features
23	From Magnet and Beyond: One Step at a Time
	*Carol Robinson, RN, MPA, CNAA, FAAN*
	The primary care/relationship-based care model this hospital incorporated on its way to Magnet status helps nurse leaders maintain accountability, exercise authority, and strengthen the aspects of professional practice that attracted people to the profession of nursing.
28	Beyond Rhetoric to Role Accountability: A Practical and Professional Model of Practice
	*Maria Williams O'Rourke, RN, DNSc, FAAN, CHC*
	A helpful and sensible strategy demonstrates how to use a data-driven, professional, role-development program to ensure competence, foster excellence, and assist with the development and maintenance of a highly functioning professional workforce.
34	Creating Healthy Workplaces: Laying the Groundwork by Listening to Nurse Managers
	*Mickey L. Parsons, PhD, MHA, RN, Patricia A. Cornett, EdD, MS, RN, and Clarice Golightly-Jenkins, PhD, MSN, RN, CNS*
	Nurse managers from five hospitals describe their desired future for creating a healthy workplace, their descriptions resonating with components of Magnetism plus elements pertinent to creating such an environment.
40	Science: Critical to Patient Care
	*Rose Rivers, PhD, RN, Linda Cohen, MSN, RN, Colleen Counsell, MSN, RN*
	To achieve efficient and outcome-oriented patient care as nursing leaders, it is more important than ever to ensure that science is formally incorporated into patient care models.
46	Staffing Alternatives: Research versus Perception
	*Franklin A. Shaffer, EdD, RN, FAAN*
	This article refutes the most common misperceptions about supplemental staffing firms.
52	Management's Possible Benefits from Teamwork and the Nursing Process
	*Antigone Michalopoulos, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN, and Helen Michalopoulos, MSN, BSN, RN*
	Team nursing and the nursing process are suggested to replace the task-based method of organizing nursing care, thus improving the satisfaction of both nurses and patients.
56	Seeding the Growth of Professional Nursing Practice with the MAGNET Forces
	*Laura Caramanica, RN, PhD, and Daniel Small, AS*
	Hartford Hospital creates a lovely analogy between the 14 Magnet forces and gardening in this pictorial essay.
Cover
10	LEADER TO WATCH
	Sandy Littlejohn
	Sonya Healy, RN, MSN
Columns
4	Editorial
	Modifying the Paradigm
	Roxane Spitzer, PhD, MBA
6	Lessons Learned
	Bored, Burned Out, or Just Plain Tired?
	Katherine Vestal, RN, PhD, FAAN, FACHE
8	The Coaching Forum
	What Change Really Means
	Catherine Robinson-Walker, MBA, MCC
American Organization of Nurse Executives
15	2006 Award & Recognition Program