title: Improving organizational performance. Administrative nurse specialist.
abstract: The Executive Nurse Council was challenged to develop strategies designed to empower staff nurses and nurse managers and create opportunities for professional growth. Implementation of these strategies resulted in broad-sweeping changes in roles and functions of groups and individuals at all levels of the organization. The authors describe a support role, administrative nurse specialist, designed to support staff and managers striving to actualize changes in a shared governance framework.
authors.affiliation: St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Houston
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bevelacqua
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007587:Job Description; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D013781:Texas