Build High-Performing Military Nurse Leaders Through Coaching, Sponsorship, and Engagement

The healthcare environment is constantly evolving, and with economic pressures to reduce costs, it is changing at a rapid rate. The Army War College depicts this environment as volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.1 Strategic nurse leaders must be able to embrace the rapidly changing environment, be visionary, innovative, adaptive, and learn effective and efficient strategies to minimize risk and maximize opportunities. The Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing 2010 reported the need for strong transformational nurse leaders across the country who will lead system-wide campaigns of healthcare transformation.2