title: Can the nursing profession win the game?
abstract: The ebb and flow of a basketball game is analogous to the nursing profession's recent past, its current state, and where the profession is heading. The metaphor of a basketball game provides a way of describing the timing of events that have shaped nursing over the past 20 years, and whether and how the next 15 years will be looked upon by historians as the greatest period in the history of the nursing profession. For this outcome to occur, nurses and the profession's leaders must see that the set of third quarter challenges are opportunities to deepen nursing's social relevance and its commitment to increase the health of people.
authors.affiliation: Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. Peter.Buerhaus@Vanderbilt.Edu
authors.forename: Peter I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Buerhaus
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000600:supply & distribution; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011364:Professional Practice; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D014481:United States