By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN One question that nurse leaders often ask today is how to expedite the process of building trust with their team. As nurse leaders, we understand that trust is built over time—and it is. But I've come to believe that trust is also much more dynamic than that. It behaves like a battery. Every interaction you have with a team member … [Read more...]
Making Sense of RN Turnover
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nursing turnover is a complex issue for health systems that are spending considerable sums to improve their work environments. Two recently released studies (one published in Health Affairs using the 2022 Nursing Sample data and one published by Press Ganey using data from their NDNQI database) provide some additional insight into … [Read more...]
Job Hugging in Nursing
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN For years, the dominant narrative in nursing workforce data was mobility. Leaders were chasing high turnover and competing with lucrative travel contracts. But a quiet shift is happening on some clinical units: nurses are staying put. Job Hugging is the practice of holding onto a current position, not necessarily out of deep … [Read more...]
The Hidden Reason Length of Stay May Be Increasing
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN If you ask any Chief Nursing Officer what is driving their stubbornly high Length of Stay (LOS), you will likely get a familiar list of macro-bottlenecks: delayed physician orders, transportation challenges, physical therapy clearances, or a shortage of post-acute nursing beds. But there may be another explanation that is happening … [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...]
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