"Nobody gives you power, you just take it." -Tom Peters, business
author.

What Tom Peters is referring to in this quote is the fact that power
cannot be obtained by position or education but in fact must be
earned by creating opportunities through education and reflections on
experience.

As a nurse educator, you must recognize that power is important for
you to be able to do your job. You need to have power to be able to
create change in the healthcare system that leads to better patient
care. You may talk of empowering your nurses; but really what you do
is you provide opportunities and preparation so that when the nurse
becomes prepared and meets the opportunity that they will have a
successful outcome for their patient.

Preparation + Opportunity = Successful Outcome

To learn more about how you can increase your ability to empower
yourself and others to higher levels of professional achievement
please check out this month's mPower4Nurses PodCast at
http://ed4nurses.typepad.com/mpower4nurses/.

Best wishes,

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