title: The empty carriage: lessons in leadership from Florence Nightingale.
abstract: Florence Nightingale made a profound statement about leadership when she returned from the Crimean War without the fanfare offered to her. Promoters paraded her empty carriage around the city of Southampton England to applaud her accomplishments in the war. Her absence signaled a new leadership, one of quiet determination, humility, and political strategy to improve quality of life. The lessons to be learned for today's nurse leaders revolve around mindfulness, clarity of purpose, reverence for human life, collaborative partnerships, co-evolution, engagement, keeping up with a world in motion, and making meaning.
authors.affiliation: South Dakota State University, USA.
authors.forename: Marge
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hegge
mesh_terms: D047849:Crimean War; D049672:History, 19th Century; D007857:Leadership; D009729:Nursing