title: Professional excellence and career advancement in nursing: a conceptual framework for clinical leadership development.
abstract: Increasingly, stakeholders in the health care community are recognizing nursing as key to solving the nation's health care issues. This acknowledgment provides a unique opportunity for nursing to demonstrate leadership by developing clinical nurse leaders to collaborate with the multidisciplinary care team in driving evidence-based, safe quality, cost-effective health care services. One approach for nursing success is standardizing the entry-level education for nurses and developing a uniform professional development and career advancement trajectory with appropriate incentives to encourage participation. A framework to guide and provide scientific evidence of how frontline nurses can be engaged will be paramount. The model for professional excellence and career advancement provides a framework that offers a clear path for researchers to examine variables influencing nurses' professional development and career advancement in a systematic manner. Professional Excellence and Career Advancement in Nursing underscores professional preparedness of a registered nurse as central to leadership development. It also describes the elements that influence nurses' participation in professional development and career advancement under 4 main categories emphasizing mentorship and self-efficacy as essential variables.
authors.affiliation: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions, Philadelphia, PA, USA. rita.adeniran@health1stcares.com
authors.forename: Rita Kudirat
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Adeniran
authors.forename: Anand
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: Anthony A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Adeniran
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003210:Concept Formation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008611:Mentors; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012944:Social Support; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States