title: Leadership and ethics in nurse-nurse relationships.
abstract: Qualities of nursing leadership may be reflected in the patterns of relating illuminated through communications between interdependent members of a discipline and interdisciplinary professional healthcare relationships. Authority and responsibility in leading-following reside with the designated leader. However, there is power with person in situation with the ever-present possibility of conflict. The author in this column will begin a discussion of conflict in nurse-nurse relationships and offer questions for straight thinking regarding the ethics of leading-following situations with nurse-nurse relationships from a humanbecoming nursing theoretical perspective.
authors.affiliation: California Baptist University, 8432 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside, CA 92504, USA. constancemilton@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Constance L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Milton