Yet, the very projects that the nursing leaders are developing would be excellent subjects for articles.
Dictation offers the nursing leader an opportunity to write, while taking little time.
Busy nursing leaders have tremendous pressures to complete written work. Patient summaries, performance reviews, professional correspondence, teaching materials, articles, research, and grant-writing projects all take considerable time to complete. Yet, nursing leaders tend to procrastinate on large written projects because they take so long that it is hard to fit them into a busy schedule. One most important professional skill for completing written projects used by many business professionals is dictation. The president of one U.S. Corporation has commented that he would not hire a vice-president who wrote by pen or computer, because it meant that he or she was not efficient.