title: 'I wanted to be boss'.
abstract: The ability to decide what has to be done now and what can wait has served Royal Blackburn Hospital matron for medicine and the medical admissions unit Lesley Gaw well in the three decades that she's been scaling the leadership ladder. But it could all have been so different, as Jennifer Trueland discovered when she met the innovative nurse manager.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trueland
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D006113:United Kingdom