title: Transparency in nursing leadership: a chosen ethic.
abstract: The concept of transparency has been viewed as an essential leadership attribute or element in healthcare organizational structures and processes. While viewed as something that is desired and valued, there is a lack of nursing disciplinary literature that defines the concept and its possible meanings. This column provides a beginning definition of transparency from the humanbecoming nursing theoretical perspective and launches a discussion with potential ethical implications for leadership in nursing practice and education.
authors.affiliation: California Baptist University, Riverside, CA 92504, USA. constancemilton@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Constance L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Milton
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000941:ethics*; D008192:Deception; D005239:Fear / Q000941:ethics; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D007400:Interprofessional Relations / Q000941:ethics; D007857:Leadership; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011361:Professional Competence; D012647:Self-Assessment; D014342:Truth Disclosure / Q000941:ethics*