This blog is for new and aspiring nurse leaders throughout the world who are interested in nursing leadership as career path. You may be in your first nursing leadership position or perhaps you just became a Registered Nurse but see leadership in your future. My goal is to provide you with leadership development information that is cutting edge and incorporates best practices … [Read more...]
Why Leading in a Unionized Environment Has Become More Complicated
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA- BC, FAAN A colleague of mine has to relocate for family reasons. She is currently a CNO in a non-unionized environment in a right-to-work state where few hospitals are unionized. She has no personal experience leading in a unionized environment at any level. She now plans to move to a region where most hospitals are unionized, and there has … [Read more...]
Nursing Turnover is Again on the Rise
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A CNO recently reached out to ask me what I was seeing in nursing recruitment and retention. She had just reviewed the nurse turnover for the previous quarter in her large hospital and was surprised to see that it was now trending upward. I assured her that she is not alone. The recently released 2026 National Health Care Retention … [Read more...]
Pulling the Future Forward
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I have recently been talking with nurse leaders about the Inverted Pyramid seen in so many acute care environments today. Our traditional staffing methodologies, leadership strategies, and care delivery mechanisms are failing because they were built in a world where nursing experience was abundant at the bedside. Today, we are in … [Read more...]
Inverted Pyramid Workshop – Open to All Leaders – June 17 2026
I am proud to partner with the New England ONL on the workshop that's generating a lot of discussion, as leaders now see that the nursing workforce has undergone a structural change in acute care. The traditional staffing pyramid — anchored by a deep layer of expert clinicians — has inverted. Today’s acute care units often rely on novice-dense teams supported by a limited … [Read more...]
What Nurse Leaders Are Getting Wrong About Generation Z
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Delivering workshops on Building Bridges, Not Walls: Leading Multigenerational Nursing Teams has given me the opportunity to speak with up-and-coming Generation Z nurse leaders across the country. I am always interested in what we are getting right in terms of meeting the needs of their generation, but more importantly, what we are … [Read more...]
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