title: Verve, vision and vitality.
abstract: A new report from the Kings Fund raises questions over the ability of nurses to take on leadership positions. Nursing, it says, needs people who can 'inspire, move, energise and enthuse others'. They're wonderful words, enough in themselves to exorcise the lethargy and apathy that has taken hold of nurse managers. It's a sort of 'get up and go' report, full of glorious adjectives that one could only wish applied to NHS leaders - not just nurses.