title: Creating a career legacy map to help assure meaningful work in nursing.
abstract: When nurses declare a professional legacy (or what they intend to be better in health care because of their efforts), they are likely to maintain a focus on achieving their legacy and to experience meaning in the process. We depict the legacy and involved steps in creating a legacy map, which is a concrete guide forward to intended career outcomes. Informed by the "meaningful work" literature, we describe a legacy map, its function, the process to create one, and the application of a legacy map to guide careers. We also describe an administrative benefit of the legacy map-the map can be used by team leaders and members to secure needed resources and opportunities to support the desired legacy of team members. Legacy mapping can be a self-use career guidance tool for nurses and other health care professionals or a tool that links the career efforts of a team member with the career support efforts of a team leader.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; Center for Translational Science; Children's National Health Systems; The George Washington University. Electronic address: pshinds@childrensnational.org.
authors.forename: Pamela S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Hinds
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; Children's National Health Systems.
authors.forename: Dorienda R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Britton
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; Children's National Health Systems.
authors.forename: Lael
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Coleman
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; Children's National Health Systems.
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Engh
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; Children's National Health Systems.
authors.forename: Tina Kunze
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Humbel
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; Children's National Health Systems; The George Washington University.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; Children's National Health Systems; The George Washington University.
authors.forename: Katherine Patterson
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; Children's National Health Systems.
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Menard
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; Children's National Health Systems; The Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children's National.
authors.forename: Marlene A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Children's National Health Systems; Department of Professional Practice and Magnet.
authors.forename: Renee
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Roberts-Turner
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; Children's National Health Systems.
authors.forename: Dory
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Walczak
mesh_terms: D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D002321:Career Choice; D002322:Career Mobility; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation
keywords: Career guidance tool; Career legacy map; Legacy planning; Meaningful work