M.Cur. (Nursing Science) / The need for improved nursing leadership. especially in the nursing service situation, within an ethnicheterogenous nursing society demands appropriate leadership development to meet the needs of dynamic health care delivery. Nursing leadership from an ethnographic perspective has not been researched in this country. Hence, the views of senior black professional nurses, within a particular research context (operating theater department), have been explored in relation to the influence of their occupational life histories on their particular views. The results have been controlled with an extensive literature review...