A model of succession planning for mental health nurse practitioners.
This paper reviews current literature on succession planning for mental health nurse practitioners (NPs) and discusses a model of succession planning that is underpinned by principals of leadership development, workforce participation and client engagement. The paper identifies succession planning as a means of managing a present and future workforce, while simultaneously addressing individual and organizational learning and practice development needs. A discussion of the processes attendant upon sustainable succession planning - collegial support, career planning and development, information exchange, capacity building, and mentoring is framed within the potential interrelationships between existing NP, developing NP and service directors and/or team managers. Done effectively and in partnership with wider clinical services, succession planning has the potential to build NP leadership development and leadership transition more broadly within mental health services.
Hampel
Sally
S
Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, SA Health, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. sally.hampel@health.sa.gov.au
Procter
Nicholas
N
Deuter
Kate
K
D001315:Australia; D002322:Career Mobility; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006287:Health Planning Guidelines; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015399:Nursing Research; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration; D010934:Planning Techniques; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses' / Q000458:organization & administration; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012944:Social Support; D013192:Staff Development / Q000458:organization & administration