Healthcare reform: unprecedented opportunity, unparalleled risk.
This department column is devoted to posing insights about transitions through, to and from, administrative roles in nursing. The unprecedented challenges posed by healthcare reform present new and complex challenges for nurse executives. The author discusses transitions in thinking and approach that will be needed to respond to the challenges and keep the focus on nursing practice excellence and patient outcomes.
Author Affiliation: Principal, Joan Ellis Beglinger Designing Tomorrow, Madison, Wisconsin, and Consultant, Tim Porter O'Grady Associates, Inc, Atlanta, Georgia.
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