Speakers - WNSC 2024

Abstract

Abstract

     Nursing Leadership development through succession planning is a strategy that has gained recent attention in Saudi Arabia in alignment with Saudi Vision 2030 and the National Transformational Plan 2020.

Aim: This study explores how to develop and sustain nursing leadership competency through succession planning in Eastern Healthcare Cluster.
Method: A qualitative descriptive design in the Eastern Healthcare Cluster comprised 22 hospitals and 137 Primary Health Centers. Through purposive sampling, 121 potential candidate names were submitted to the Eastern Healthcare Cluster Nursing Affairs for consideration and acceptance on the Succession plan program. A comprehensive document package utilized the Structure, Process and Outcome (SPO) framework to examine and evaluate leadership competency development.

Results: A total of 31 completed competencies aligned to the workshop and were found to be suitable for succession plan positions, the remaining 15 demonstrated leadership potential, and their deadlines were extended to provide more time to develop competency.

Recommendations: despite many challenges and limitations, the authors recommended maintaining and sustaining the succession plan program during 2021 by developing additional workshops aligning competencies to develop Nurse Leaders further. Additionally, the provision of mentorship programs that aim to sharpen the mentor’s skill set will provide mentees with the necessary support to successfully develop leadership competence. Thus, further studies must be conducted on this nursing population in Saudi Arabia, which is currently under-researched.

Keywords: Nursing Leadership, Succession Planning, Sustaining, Saudi Arabia