Revisioning, re-educating, regenerating, and recommitting nursing for the twenty-first century

In a rapidly changing health care environment, nursing must continually transform itself. For this to occur, nursing leaders must be willing to commit to a vision of relationship-centered care that includes the behaviors of team building, participatory decision making, trustworthiness, positive self-esteem, low control needs, trust in self and others, and openness to explore new programs and gain new knowledge.