title: Nurse leaders: roles driving organizational transition.
abstract: Transition leaders have developed in our organizations. These roles allow nurse leaders to combine the knowledge of the customer, the art of nursing, and the chaos of health care in order to pioneer new strategies. These roles are flexible, either focused or broad, and change in scope and direction. The teams we lead are diverse in team experience, seen as disconnected from operations, and struggle with exceedingly defined or hardly evident boundaries. Methodologies add structure and foster active participation; they are fast, decisive, compressed, creating results. "Change-magic" assists in making decisions and influencing the organization to "get the job done."
authors.affiliation: Veterans Memorial Medical Center, Meriden, Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Hernandez
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Spivack
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zwingman-Bagley
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D009746:Nursing, Team