Why aren't more nurses leaders? A consumer's perspective

Nurse leaders are made, not born. It seems to this patient (and we all are likely to be patients at some time) that not enough nurses are leaders. I don't know if I am right, but if I am, then what it takes to be a nurse leader is for a good number of you to study the need, find specific issues that call for leadership action, and take the lead in effecting the change. Nurses have always had the power, but not enough of your have been organized and have learned how to use it. My experience as a patient has led to this attempt to look at some of the issues surrounding nursing leadership. I hope that this perspective is a stimulus to change for the betterment of patient care.