title: Replacement-ready? Succession planning tops health care administrators' priorities.
abstract: Nurses' increasing age coupled with health care's rapidly changing environment moves succession planning, originally only a business sector tool, to a top administrative priority. Through active support of your facility's executive leadership and a clear linkage to long range organization objectives, you can implement this progressive procedure.
authors.affiliation: VA Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif., USA.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Husting
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alderman
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D006752:Hospital Planning; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010557:Personnel Administration, Hospital; D013192:Staff Development