title: Strategic considerations in developing a delivery model.
abstract: Nurse executives must challenge basic assumptions about their organizations and help create visions that are feasible and applicable to the institutions' realities. Evaluative criteria and the relationship of the nurse executive to a reality-based model of care are vital to this goal.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Armstrong
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Stetler
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration