5. Integrator role
Necessary in all complex organizations.
Informal, unacknowledged, powerful.
Arises at the point of greatest knowledge of
the product on a moment-to-moment basis.
6. The Youngest Science
“One thing the nurses do is to hold the place
together…My discovery as a patient…is that the
institution is held together, glued together,
enabled to function as an organism by the
nurses and by nobody else.”
- Lewis Thomas, MD, PhD
7. Institute of Medicine
The Future of Nursing
Nurses should practice to the full extent of their
education and training.
Nurses should achieve higher levels of education &
training through an improved education system that
promotes seamless academic progression.
Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and
other health professionals, in redesigning health care
in the U.S.
Effective workforce planning and policy making
require better data collection and an improved
information infrastructure.
8. To succeed…
You have to engage the glue because,
without that ingredient, the innovation
won’t stick.