A Call to Action: Succession Planning Needed

The statistics regarding the aging American workforce, including the nursing workforce, are quite daunting. The aging workforce coupled with nursing's inability to recruit nurses to replace those leaving the field, creates a sense of urgency to develop strategies to retain the nurses actively engaged in the profession. There is also a sense of urgency to work to develop a subset of nurses to successfully assume leadership positions that will be vacated in the next five to ten years. Succession planning, management, and implementation are activities that are urgently needed in the nursing workforce today. Give light and the people will find their way Ella Baker (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.