Are your nurse managers ready for health care reform? Consider the 8 'Es'

The most significant investment a nursing executive can make in an organization and to the delivery of quality patient care is the development of current and future front-line nurse managers. We are on the brink of massive changes in access and the delivery of health care. The front-line manager is in a critical position to make it all work and deliver what the public wants: better access, improved quality, and less cost. If front-line nurse managers are key stakeholders and will undoubtedly play a major role in health care reform, are they ready? Nurse leaders must evaluate, educate, embrace, enable, empower, espouse, engage, and excite frontline nurse managers in order to expand health care services efficiently and effectively.