POWER AND LEADERSHIP IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING - DIRECTIONS FOR THE NEXTCENTURY .2.

TOPIC. The application of power and leadership to psychiatric nursing in the next century PURPOSE. To suggest strategies for empowering psyc hiatric nursing SOURCE. Review of the literature and authors observati ons of the discipline CONCLUSIONS. Empowerment of our discipline rests with individuals committed to changing the societal problems holding us back. This will be accomplished through consciousness-raising, coal ition-building, transformation, feminist leadership, political action, public relations, development of a new language, and research.