title: Transformational leadership practices of nurse leaders in professional nursing associations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study describes the transformational leadership (TL) practices of nurse leaders in professional nursing associations (PNAs).
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Professional nursing associations are vehicles to provide educational opportunities for nurses as well as leadership opportunities for members. Little has been published about the leadership practices of PNA members.
  
  
  METHODS
  E-mail surveys of 448 nurse leaders in PNAs were conducted in 2013 using the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The top 2 TL practices of these nurse leaders were enabling others to act and encouraging the heart. Respondents with more leadership training reported higher TL practices.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This is the 1st study to describe TL practices of nurse leaders in PNAs. Results of this study show that nurse leaders of PNAs emulate practices of TL. Transformational leaders can mobilize and direct association members in reaching shared values, objectives, and outcomes. Understanding TL practices of nurse leaders in PNAs are important to the future of nursing in order to enable nurses to lead change and advance health through these organizations.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: Doctor of Nursing Practice and Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner (Dr Ross), Head & Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Beachwood, Ohio; Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing (Dr Fitzpatrick); Assistant Professor (Dr Click), Francis Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Medical Director (Dr Click), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Professor of Nursing (Dr Krouse), College of Nursing, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer (Dr Clavelle), Scottsdale Healthcare, Arizona.
authors.forename: Erin J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: Joyce J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Fitzpatrick
authors.forename: Elizabeth R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Click
authors.forename: Helene J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Krouse
authors.forename: Joanne T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Clavelle
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D014481:United States