***Comment this***With increasing demands on nurses, nurse l

***Comment this***With increasing demands on nurses, nurse leaders ’ one of the role is to advocate for nurses in C-suite. Nurse leader recognizes that when nurses are stressed managing high volume and acuity of patient care they are not able to perform value-added care. It is important to identify a better way to assess nursing productivity and patient acuity as that is the singular data point used to make staffing decisions. Nurse leaders need to collaborate with C-suite to set policies by looking at data trends and plan for workforce management and labor expense.