HealthLeaders Media January 17, 2025
CNOs should keep on using their voice to speak up for nursing, says this nurse leader.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– CNOs should work to create workforces with diversity of thought and background, so that patients can receive care from nurses who reflect the community.
– Nurse leaders should use their advocacy skills in the legislative process and use their subject matter expertise to educate policymakers.
– CNOs should take advantage of social media to connect that public and tell the story of nursing.
Nursing was a second career for Claire Zangerle.
At age 28, Zangerle was working in clinical exercise physiology in cardiac rehab, and was inspired by what the nurses were doing.
“I can do that,...