In complex and rapidly changing healthcare environments, nurse executives are challenged to lead within organisational systems to fulfill regulatory, health consumer (patient), family, physician and staff expectations, and provide excellence in nursing and midwifery practice across care environments (Parsons & Cornett, 2011; The Kings Fund, 2011; Patton & Pawar, 2012).
Nurse executives are in a unique position to influence change in healthcare and the quality of patient care by virtue of their combined professional and executive mandate. Nurse executives are aware of, understand and respond to political imperatives and the impact on health service delivery and nursing and midwifery practice (Talbert, 2012).
This position paper provides an overview of the available and relevant literature as it relates to nurse executive positions in health services.
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