title: The role of nurses and nurse leaders on realizing the clinical, social, and economic return on investment of nursing care.
abstract: There is a limited understanding of the significance and the potential contribution that nursing can make through practice, policy, science, and profession to the global health agenda. In this article, we present some of the evidence to demonstrate the clinical, social, and economic returns on investment in nursing. We conclude by addressing the issues that nurse and system leaders need to address in order to achieve these returns on investments, and unless nurses get involved at the leadership level, these returns on investment will not be attained.
authors.affiliation: International Council of Nurses, Geneva, Switzerland. shamianjudith@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shamian
authors.affiliation: Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel. Israeli Center for Technology Assessment in Healthcare, Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel. McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Moriah E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Ellen
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments; D007857:Leadership; D009726:Nurses