The pivotal role of nurse managers, leaders and educators in enabling excellence in nursing care.
OBJECTIVE
The aims of this paper are to present the findings from a discursive analysis of key issues associated with providing excellence in nursing care; and to provide an exemplar framework to support excellence in nursing care and describe the potential benefits when excellence in nursing care occurs.


BACKGROUND
The challenge facing the nursing profession is in ensuring that the core principles of dignity, respect, compassion and person (people) centered care become central to all aspects of nursing practice. To regain the public and professional confidence in nursing, nurse leaders, managers and educators play a pivotal role in improving the image of nursing.


RESULTS
Excellence in nursing care will only happen by ensuring that nurse managers, leaders and educators are able to respond to the complexity of reform and change by leading, managing, enabling, empowering, encouraging and resourcing staff to be innovative and entrepreneurial in practice.


CONCLUSIONS
Creating healthcare environments that enable excellence in nursing care will not occur without the development of genuine shared working partnerships and collaborations between nurse managers, leaders and educators and their associated organizations.


CONCLUSIONS
The importance of adopting an authentic sustainable leadership approach to facilitating and supporting frontline staff to innovate and change is imperative in restoring and evidencing that nurses do care and are excellent at what they do. By focusing attention on what resources are required to create a healthcare environment that enables compassion, safety and excellence in nursing care and what this means would be a reasonable start on the journey to excellence in nursing.
School of Health and Social Care, Teesside University, Middlesbrough Independent Health Care Consultant, Yarm, Stockton-on-Tees,UK. robert.mcsherry@tees.ac.uk
Robert
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McSherry
Paddy
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Pearce
Karen
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Grimwood
Wilfred
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McSherry
D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care