The Human Capital Competencies Inventory for developing nurse managers.

Background: Nurse managers play a vital role in healthcare delivery systems. Psychometrically sound measures of management practices grounded in empirical practice data are needed.

Method: An integrative review provided content domain for the Human Capital Competencies Inventory (HCCI).

Mastery path for developing nurses for management: a conceptual model.

The demand for knowledgeable and skilled nurses in health care management positions highlights the importance of identifying management practices, competencies, and skills of effective managers. Once these attributes are identified, then approaches can be identified for developing nurses for these positions. This article describes a conceptual model, the Mastery Path for Developing Nurses for Management, that serves as a tool for the profession of nursing, health care organizations, and academic institutions to identify and educate nurses in the health care system.

A reflective model for organizational assessment and interventions.

A visionary academic medical center in Colombia, South America, engaged the Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership in a multifaceted project for the overall goal of strengthening the model of professional practice. The authors describe a reflective model for organizational assessment that steered the in-depth assessment of the organization. The model combines the constructs of culture, theory, patterns, and phenomenon with an iterative process.

Vision 2020, part I: profile of the future nurse leader.

The demand for knowledgeable and skilled nursing leaders at the first, middle, and executive levels of management in healthcare organizations drove a multi-phased project about the kinds of nurse managers who will be needed in the future and their educational needs. This first article in a two-part series describes seasoned nurse leaders' opinions about the educational preparation, experiences, and competencies desired in nurse managers for the year 2020.