title: Power and leadership in psychiatric nursing. Directions for the next century: Part I.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Power and leadership in psychiatric nursing.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe power, leadership, and their relationship to psychiatric nursing, with suggestions for the future of the discipline.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of literature and author's observations of the discipline.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The relationship of power and leadership focuses on leader qualities, a model for the interrelationship of leaders and colleagues, and the leader's achievement of a power position.
authors.affiliation: Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA, USA.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Lanza
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D016294:Models, Nursing; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*