The postpandemic health care environment has reached a pivotal point requiring transformative
change among professional nurses working in health care organizations. This article
posits that the nurses at the bedside, the true innovators and influencers, are most
able to develop solutions that will be effective in this transformation. Appreciative
inquiry is offered as a co-creative and possibility-focused model to guide nurses
and nurse leaders through the process of holding on to what is good, dreaming of what
can be, and charting the course for their future.
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Biography
Kay Kennedy, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CPHQ, is the Chief Executive Officer at uLeadership, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia and Senior Clinical Instructor at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia. She can be reached at [email protected] Lucy Leclerc, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, is the Chief Learning Officer at uLeadership, LLC and is an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in Boston, Massachusetts. Susan Campis, MSN, RN, NE-BC is the Chief Health and Wellness Officer at uLeadership, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Published online: June 30, 2022
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Note: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
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