title: Charge nurses: critical change agents for successful restructuring.
abstract: Charge nurses know a unit's needs, difficulties, strong points, and successes. Therefore, charge nurses are often the key people that make restructuring work at the unit level. This article describes how to empower charge nurses so they can be the drivers for today's changes.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Boynton
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rothman
mesh_terms: D006754:Hospital Restructuring; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation