Roslyn Sorensen|Rick Iedema|Elisabeth Severinsson
Beyond profession: nursing leadership in contemporary healthcare
University of Technology Sydney
aims examine nursing leadership contemporary health care potential contribution health service organization management background nursing profession repositions equal partner health care beside medicine management enhanced nursing standards clinical knowledge leading commensurate extension nursings power authority organization methods ethnographic study icu sydney australia comprising interviews unit nursing managers 4 focus groups 3 less experienced intermediate experienced nurses 29 total interviews senior nurse manager 1 results inter intraprofessional barriers workplace fragmentation multidisciplinary clinical systems collectively deliver care clinical administrative disconnection resolving organizational problems prevented nurses articulating model intensive endoflife care conclusions professional advocacy skills needed overcome barriers articulate operationalize new nursing knowledge standards nurses enact embed leadership role implications nursing management profession need move beyond reliance professional clinical models become skilled multidisciplinary team members professional advocates nurses take place equal partners health care