Part 1 Nursing in the public eye : professional leadership issues -- Nursing as metaphor / Claire M. Fagin and Donna Diers -- Nursing comes of age / Joan E. Lynaugh and Claire M. Fagin -- Nurses' rights / Claire M. Fagin -- Executive leadership : improving nursing practice, education and research / Claire M. Fagin -- Interfacing successfully in the interdisciplinary group / Claire M. Fagin -- Nursing and consumerism / Claire M. Fagin and Leah F. Binder -- Nursing and the managed care marketplace / Claire M. Fagin and Leah F. Binder -- The abandonment of the patient : the impact of for-profit health care / Claire M. Fagin and Suzanne Gordon -- Part 2 Preparing future nurses : leadership in education -- Preparing students for leadership / Claire M. Fagin -- An agenda for nursing education / Claire M. Fagin and Joan E. Lynaugh -- Institutionalizing faculty practice / Claire M. Fagin -- Part 3 Making a difference : one example -- The case for rooming in when young children are hospitalized -- Claire M. Fagin -- Part 4 Looking ahead -- Y2K : nurses can turn on the heat in health care / Claire M. Fagin.