With nurse staffing shortages, rising patient acuity, complex technologies, and the rapid changes in healthcare today, the system poses several leadership challenges for professional nurses who seek to meet the expectations of the IOM report.2 Improving clinical nurse work environments is a major challenge as it impacts both patient and nursing outcomes. Nursing evidence links quality-of-practice environments with decreased mortality and failure-to-rescue situations, patient safety, length of stay, patient satisfaction, and nurse satisfaction, retention, and turnover.