Understanding Chief Nurse Executive (CNE) influence §is essential for the discipline of nursing. There §are approximately 5000 CNEs in the United States, §all tasked with being the primary identifiable §leader representing organizations in which they are §employed and the nursing profession of which they §are a part. In this capacity, the CNE is the §gatekeeper for the advancement of the majority of §the 2.4 million nurses practicing in the U.S. §Literature suggests that early CNEs lacked influence §and often were not recognized members of §organizational executive teams. Today,...