Nurse Leader
Volume 4, Issue 6 , Page 42, December 2006

Time for a nursing legacy: Ensuring excellence through actionable knowledge

  • Susan E. Ela

      Affiliations

    • Susan E. Ela, RN, MSN is senior clinical vice president of Aurora Health Care and president of the Metro Region and the Aurora Visiting Association of Wisconsin.
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  • Norma M. Lang

      Affiliations

    • Norma M. Lang, RN, PhD, FAAN, Wisconsin Regent Distinguished Professor and Aurora Professor of Healthcare Quality and Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is professor and dean emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
    • ,
  • Sally P. Lundeen

      Affiliations

    • Sally P. Lundeen, RN, PhD, FAAN, is professor and dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Several years ago, a group of visionaries from academia, health care, and business asked themselves what kind of legacy they might leave for nursing and patient care. At the time, measuring patient outcomes was becoming crucial, increasingly tied to pay for performance. Information technology was offering new tools and systems for creating and managing the burgeoning amount of data necessary to care for patients. Surely nursing, with its patient care mission, should play a major role in these developments.

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PII: S1541-4612(06)00264-3

doi:10.1016/j.mnl.2006.09.010

Nurse Leader
Volume 4, Issue 6 , Page 42, December 2006

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