title: Can NHS politics, power and conflict ever be a good thing for nurses?
abstract: This article explores how organisational politics, power and conflict have a positive role to play for nurses in NHS organisational change and improvement, rather than always leading to disagreement and dispute.
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Health and Community, School of Nursing and Allied Health, Liverpool John Moores University.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lees
mesh_terms: D034462:Dissent and Disputes; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009726:Nurses; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological; D058996:Quality Improvement; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Conflict; Nursing; Organisational politics; Power