title: Executive seduction.
abstract: The growth of corporate orientation for healthcare structures, with a focus on bottom-line management, has radically altered the role of nurse executives. With the organization's emphasis on performance, productivity, and results, successful nurse executives are now integrating the management of the delivery of nursing care with the management of complex corporate structures and relationships. The editor of Executive Development discusses the rapidly changing expectations and demands of the contemporary nurse executive's work.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Administration, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012380:Role; D013995:Time