Chapter 1 Introduction on Leadership, Nursing and the Nordic Countries

Chapter 2 The State of Nursing Science in Denmark

Chapter 3 Evidence-Based Clinical Practice

Chapter 4 Higher Education in Nursing in a Changing Danish Society

Chapter 5 Pioneers in an Old Culture. Developing and Leading a Research and Development Capacity Building Program

Chapter 6 State of Nursing Science in Finland

Chapter 7 Leading Evidence-Based Practice in Finnish Healthcare

Chapter 8 Nursing Education and Nurse Education Research in Finland

Chapter 9 Professional Practice Competence Framework for the Nurse Leader

Chapter 10 State of Leadership in Nursing Science in Iceland

Chapter 11 Complexity Leadership in the Collaboration Between Academia and Clinical Nursing: Searching for Harmony

Chapter 12 Towards the Future: The Education of Nurses in Iceland Reconsidered

Chapter 13 A Nurse-Managed Follow-Up Practice for Patients After Discharge from the Intensive Care Unit: Development, Testing and Implementation

Chapter 14 Historical Development and the State of Nursing Science in Norway

Chapter 15 Research Development in the Clinical Field

Chapter 16 Research in Nursing Education in Norway

Chapter 17 Developing a Clinical Nursing Research Programme: The Case of Promoting Psychosocial Well-Being in Stroke Survivors

Chapter 18 Nursing Science in Sweden: Internal and External Forces Contributing to Its Development

Chapter 19 Clinical Practice Project Implementing Evidence-Based Practice

Chapter 20 Nursing Leadership in Transition: From Matriarch and Instructor to University Teacher and Researcher

Chapter 21 Nursing Research in Sweden: Academic Leadership