Nursing leadership in health care organizations is full of critical challenges and
decisions, competing demands, occasional failures, and successes that are never enough.
This was my experience as a nurse leader over 3 decades, across 4 states, in community
hospitals and for-profit health care systems. I was one of many well-intentioned nurse
leaders who did not have the impact on nurses and caring practices I longed to achieve…until
I did. This is my journey.
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Biography
Pat McClendon, RN, MSN, DNP, Caritas Coach, is author of Getting Real About Caring in Temecula, California. She can be reached at [email protected]
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Publication history
Published online: February 21, 2020
Accepted:
January 21,
2020
Received:
November 11,
2019
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