This book discusses the importance of nurse-led care at the bedside and how to achieve a professional practice model that allows for such leadership growth, in connection with the recommendations from the Future of Nursing Report. It will provide key background and how-to information about the important leadership roles that nurses can assume at the bedside while caring or patients and families and perhaps most importantly, how to create an environment in which these initiatives can flourish and advance quality health care.

Influencing professional practice at the bedside -- Professional practice model : strategies for translating models into practice -- Creating empowering work environments to promote professional nursing practice -- Scope of work-care at the bedside -- Nurse-patient relationship : knowledge transforming practice at the bedside -- Nursing's moral imperative -- Innovations in care delivery -- Promoting diversity in the workplace -- Mentorship and best practices for mentorship -- Evidence/knowledge-driven practice -- Designing the infrastructure to foster nurse-led care at the bedside -- Nurse leaders : influencing new paradigms of care delivery -- Measuring the hospital work environment : development, validation, and revision of the professional practice environment scale -- International nursing leadership : impact at the bedside -- Concluding thoughts.