Executive Leadership and Entrepreneurship of Emergency Nurse Practitioners: Pioneering Pathways in Emergency Care.

For more than five decades, emergency nurse practitioners have developed partnerships and led improvements in emergency care delivery. Through these endeavors the quality of patient care has been amplified and access to emergency care has been augmented. Nurse practitioners providing emergency care possess fundamental leadership qualities necessary for leading teams in delivery of exceptional care. Though advanced practice nurse entrepreneurship is relatively new, engagement of emergency nurse practitioners in business ventures continues to evolve and expand. This article showcases the work of five emergency nurse practitioners whose leadership and entrepreneurship have elevated emergency care bringing recognition to the aptitude and versatility of the emergency nurse practitioner specialty.