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Abstract

This item record pertains to an excerpt from Pivotal Moments in Nursing, Volume I, which is provided free of charge by the publisher.

About this book: This book brings you the stories behind some of nursing's living legends.

Designed to inspire nursing professionals worldwide to step into leadership roles, this book traces the paths of 12 legendary yet contemporary nurse leaders through the pivotal times in their lives that helped transform them into leaders, and thereby change the face of nursing.

In this Year of the Nurse, please accept this gift as a token of Sigma's appreciation for the work you do to improve healthcare and the lives of people everywhere.

Print and mobile versions are available for purchase at the provided links, but this copy is entirely free for personal use. To purchase other books from the publisher, click here.

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Author Details

Beth Houser, MS, RN, FNP-C, DNSc, is Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer at Baylor Regional Medical Center in Grapevine, Texas. Kathy N. Player, EDd, RN, is Chief Academic Officer, Vice President of Health Science Education, and Vice President of Clinic Operations at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona.

Sigma Membership

Beta Mu

Lead Author Affiliation

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Grapevine, Grapevine, Texas, USA

Type

Book

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Expert Opinion (nationally/internationally recognized)

Research Approach

N/A

Keywords:

Nursing, Leadership, Interviews

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Publisher

Sigma Theta Tau International

Version

Publisher's Version

Rights Holder

All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.

All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.

All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.

Review Type

None: Professionally Edited Material

Acquisition

Publisher-submission

Date of Issue

2004

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Pivotal moments in nursing, volume I [Free book download]

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