ABSTRACT
The pace of change in the world is unprecedented, calling for nurse leaders who are responsive to new workplace environments, which require new strategies that question prevailing assumptions. Doctoral education in nursing must be reframed to prepare leaders with new skills to transform the organizational culture in which care delivery takes place. Leaders must be able to analyse trends in the healthcare market, manage growing diversity, and incorporate emerging evidence about the workplace. Doctoral education is charged with preparing leaders who can think out of the box and stimulate creative problem solving in others, invigorating nurses to claim a voice in crafting a vision of healthcare delivery that recognizes the essentialness of nursing.
