Within the healthcare system, nurses constitute the largest healthcare provider group. Hence, personnel and other workplace matters are very crucial to this group. Besides, the latest nursing consultation recognized the urgency for more attention on approaches that deal with generational variations, like recruitment and retention problems associated with work-life balance expectations; full-time engagement; and particular education and mentoring requirements that help the changing roles of new nurses into more complex settings. More and more evidence has been obtained that nursing care has put a huge impact on the quality of care and patient safety. As regards nursing leadership is concerned, the areas which need to be addressed are identification of strategies and models for engaging nurses in governance and decision-making; finding means to strategically support new nurses in leadership development and mentoring; and finding out the role of nurses and nursing leadership in the implementation of quality improvement in health systems. ("Nursing Leadership, Organization, and Policy" n. d.)
             The most recent development in Nurse Leadership has been Clinical Nurse Leader -- CNL under which a new role for nursing has been defined which a pioneering concept in 35 years. The CNL tract grooms professional nurses as advanced generalists who are specialized at the point of care. The CNL has several roles to play in the healthcare setting including: Clinical practice, Outcomes manager, Patient Advocate, Educator, Information Manager, Systems Analysts or Risk Anticipator and the most important role which is Team Leader. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing -- AACN has spearheaded the initiative for the CNL in an answer to the needs of the client within the gamut of healthcare delivery setting. The urgency for the CNL was corroborated by way of discussion among the AACN and health care leaders within the practice setting. The CNL was de...