As we are facing yet another brutal nursing shortage nursing leaders should thrive to pass a really important leadership test, which is the law of legacy.  
Legacy means to pass something immaterial from one generation to another.  The ability and willingness for nursing leaders to reproduce themselves in other nurses is very important in our efforts to attract and keep people practicing the nursing profession. 
Leaders who seek to reproduce themselves in younger nurses should do so very early in the career of the younger nurse. They should be pro-active in looking for the future nurse leader to cast the vision of reproduction in becoming leaders.  Future nurse leaders can be found in every unit during any regular working hour waiting to be discovered by someone in leadership. 
If you are looking to make a difference in nursing, reproducing yourself in someone else’s life is a great place to start.  As a leader in the quest for future leaders be intentional, and take the opportunity to handpick the next generation of leaders in nursing.