Nurse Leader
Volume 4, Issue 6 , Pages 29-33, December 2006

The role of nursing leadership in clinical transformation

  • Kelly D. Marley, RN, MS

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    • Kelly D. Marley, RN, MS, is a client results executive for Cerner Corporation in Kansas City, Missouri.
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  • Donna L. Reck, MSN, RN, CNA, BC, PhD(c)

      Affiliations

    • Donna L. Reck, MSN, RN, CNA, BC, PhD(c), is the chief nursing officer at Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Recruitment and retention of talent is one of the top priorities in health care today, particularly for chief nursing officers (CNOs), whose span of control continues to widen across the organization. Current demographics reveal a nursing population averaging 46.8 years of age,1 with an evolving group of sophisticated newcomers that has grown up with technology. These nurses base employment decisions on environments that provide a high level of professional support, including the use of information technology in patient care. Mixed with the more experienced veterans of nursing who may be less technically savvy, the challenge to nursing leadership is obvious: nursing must embrace information technology in the same way it has other medical technologies.

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PII: S1541-4612(06)00266-7

doi:10.1016/j.mnl.2006.09.012

Nurse Leader
Volume 4, Issue 6 , Pages 29-33, December 2006

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