title: Power and leadership in psychiatric nursing: directions for the next century. Part II.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The application of power and leadership to psychiatric nursing in the next century
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To suggest strategies for empowering psychiatric nursing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of the literature and authors observations of the discipline
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Empowerment of our discipline rests with individuals committed to changing the societal problems holding us back. This will be accomplished through consciousness-raising, coalition-building, transformation, feminist leadership, political action, public relations, development of a new language, and research.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Lanza
mesh_terms: D019513:Feminism; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*