Leaders are visionaries. The most important job of any leader is to
share a vision for a powerful and glorious future that keeps hope
alive. As a nurse educator, your job is more than just testing
competencies and performing in-services. You are a leader. You can
choose to be a good one or a bad one. Regardless of what you think
your leadership skills are, having a clear, powerful, and positive
vision for the future is the most empowering leadership quality that
you can possess.

Throughout the history of nursing, there has never been a more
important time for our leaders to have, to share, and to embrace a
powerful vision for the future. Your nurses feel overwhelmed with
the problems of understaffing, exponential increases in knowledge,
and the sheer physical labor of the jobs. Many nurses are
desperately trying to find hope in the form of a powerful vision for
the future from their leaders.

Take this opportunity to sit down and draft your vision for the
perfect future of your department, your hospital, and your nurses.
Keep it in front of you every day and strive to work a little bit
closer to that perfect future. Share your vision with your nurses.
I think you will be surprised at the positive response you will
receive. A leader with a positive, insightful, empowering vision is
a dealer in hope.

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." –Albert
Einstein

Best wishes,
David W. Woodruff, MSN, RN-BC, CNS, CEN
President, Ed4Nurses, Inc.
www.Ed4Nurses.com