title: Strategic planning for nursing.
abstract: Strategic planning is a systematic approach to decision making. Nurse administrators who rely on formal planning and measurement of outcomes are more likely to assure consistent high performance from their departments than those who rely on intuition. Planning can serve as motivation for nursing personnel if they are allowed to have some input into it. Not only is nursing practice advanced by strategic planning, as this article shows, but scarce resources can be conserved.
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006040:Goals; D006126:Group Processes; D009739:Nursing Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011050:Policy Making