The role of the nurse executive.

It is vital that the nurse executive critically examine her role conception and her role performance. She should take an activist's position in regard to her role, making it the sort of role it should be rather than merely filling the role as others expect or anticipate. Every role has much elasticity in it, and this enables the nurse executive to manipulate and alter the role if she tries. She also should learn to be sensitive to attempts to cast her in lesser roles than those which accord with her position in the organization. Role is an excellent concept by which to consider and link such various elements of management as managerial skills and abilities, managerial functions, organizational status, and strategies for management.