title: Future directions for nursing administration.
abstract: As the age of centralization wanes, nurse executives must look ahead. The author, noting a terrain obscured by the increasing complexity of nursing practice, points out the advantages of decentralizing decision making and of providing a distinctive nursing stamp to research and administration theory. Nurse executives, trained in management from early in their professional formation, can provide enlightened direction and flexible support for tomorrow's opportunities.
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000639:trends*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends*; D012106:Research; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000639:trends