Changing to an Area Health Board – A Personal View
Sheryl Smail, RGON, DHA, Chief Nursing Officer, Wanganui Area Health Board
Reference: Smail, S. (1987). Changing to an Area Health Board – A Personal View. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 2(2), 8-14.
Abstract:
Sometimes it feels that to make change takes such a lot of energy and such a long time that it’s a wonder we can sustain the momentum to change anything. Yet reflecting on the ways the organisation I work for today is different to the one I worked for on 1 October 1985, the day we first became an Area Health Board, I realise that we have achieved significant change already. I firmly believe the foundations have been established for the formation of an excellent Area Health Board. Continued…