Nurse leaders offer excellent leadership, analytical skill and knowledge that can add value to the mission and vision of highly visible organizations. Nurse leaders benefit from the opportunity to serve in board governance roles. By offering nurse leaders additional opportunities to lead on boards of directors of corporations, universities and colleges, non-profit and foundations, and health care industry boards of governance, high performing nurses are more likely to stay in the workforce, exactly at a time when we need them the most. The U.S.