title: Leadership in nursing homes-2009: challenges for change in difficult times.
abstract: This article is about nursing leadership, workforce diversity, and underrepresentation in nursing. It is about long-term care, specifically the nursing home, the nurses, and the certified nursing assistants. The nursing shortage, the shortage of nurse educators, and curricular changes in the colleges and universities are not the focus of this work. The questions asked here are, who will care for the residents in nursing homes, and how will they recruit the much-needed leadership at a time of unprecedented need?
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts Boston, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125, USA. linda.dumas@umb.edu
authors.forename: Linda G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Dumas
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blanks
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Palmer-Erbs
authors.forename: Frances L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Portnoy
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002321:Career Choice; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005544:Forecasting; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009728:Nursing Assistants / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D014481:United States