The Secret of Serotinous Leadership:: The Pandemic Crisis Changed Care Models, But Only After Leaders Changed Their Minds About Them.

The COVID-19 pandemic punctured the status quo, triggering a reassessment of mindsets, biases and assumptions that had impeded widespread adoption of virtual care models and advanced nursing practice roles within them. Now, as we move to a post-pandemic environment, we enter a new phase, one in which continued progress on these fronts is not assured. Formalizing these breakthroughs as new standards of care - and securing nurses' expanded practice roles - rests on the ability of nurse leaders to address a phenomenon called "cultural lag" and imaginatively shape the transformation on which continued progress depends.