title: The Harvard Nursing Research Institute's conference summary.
abstract: The Harvard Nursing Research Institute organized a national invitational conference on executive nursing leadership in major teaching hospitals and academic health centers. The conference brought together many of the nation's eminent nurse executives and other prominent individuals in healthcare to analyze the unique and complex challenges facing these organizations, expose participants to other perspectives, and articulate specific aims and strategies that might be taken to increase their effectiveness in leading the nursing profession's efforts to shape the ongoing transformation of the healthcare system.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Nursing Research Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: P I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Buerhaus
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Clifford
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Fay
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Sporing
authors.forename: G K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Weissman
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States