Leadership in nursing homes-2009: challenges for change in difficult times.

This article is about nursing leadership, workforce diversity, and underrepresentation in nursing. It is about long-term care, specifically the nursing home, the nurses, and the certified nursing assistants. The nursing shortage, the shortage of nurse educators, and curricular changes in the colleges and universities are not the focus of this work.

Promoting the importance of work for persons with psychiatric disabilities--the role of the psychiatric nurse.

1. Familiarize yourself with the vital resources in your community. 2.

Exploring the field. Strengthening psychiatric rehabilitation nursing practice with new information and ideas.

1. Nurses working in traditional psychiatric inpatient settings are becoming more aware of rehabilitation as it applies to people who experience long term mental illness. 2.

An innovation in psychiatric rehabilitation programming. Supported education.

1. In the rehabilitation and recovery process, every person deserves a carefully tailored plan to meet individual needs. 2.