CCNA's Pat Polanksy: Nurse Leaders are Everywhere

CCNA’s Pat Polansky spoke to NurseZone.com during Nurses' Week about ways nursing has changed since the first Nurses' Day in 1954. Pat, who serves as Director of Policy and Communications for the Center, emphasized that the changing needs of patients and families has really driven the nursing profession to respond and lead – an underlying theme of the Institute of Medicine Report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Pat said that the nurses understand and embrace the value of interprofessional collaboration and “support the concept of better care coordination, which is a hallmark of models such as the patient-centered medical home.”