Developing Leaders from “Seeming Opposites”

Abstract

The development of nurse leaders arises out of nursing and knowledge from other disciplines. In this column, Dr. McBride shares her experiences as a nurse leader and takes a view of leadership that makes the “tensions” of apparent “opposites” explicit to provide clarity within leading-following situations.

Keywords

leaders leadership development nursing philosophy

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