Nurse Leader
Volume 7, Issue 3 , Pages 24-28 , June 2009

Nursing Management: Confounding the Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome

  • Leah Curtin, ScD(h), RN, FAAN

      Affiliations

    • Leah Curtin, ScD(h), RN, FAAN, is the director of Cross Country Education's Nurse Manager Boot Camp

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PII: S1541-4612(09)00056-1

doi: 10.1016/j.mnl.2009.03.006

Nurse Leader
Volume 7, Issue 3 , Pages 24-28 , June 2009