Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Major Challenges for Chief Nursing Officers in 2014

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "Balancing optimism and realism, intuition and planning, faith and fact can be difficult.  But that is what it takes to be effective in navigating leadership."  John Maxwell Each year in my Introduction to Nursing Leadership graduate course, my students select a chief  nursing officer in a health care agency to interview.  The students … [Read more...]

Mistakes Health Care Leaders Make in Cutting Health Care Costs

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Many nurse leaders feel today that some of the cuts being made in healthcare by organizational leaders are shortsighted.  But it sometimes takes a team of researchers outside of health care to paint a clear picture of some of the missteps that are being made to cut healthcare costs.  In this month's Harvard Business Review, researchers … [Read more...]

When Will the Bullying in Nursing Stop?

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN It broke my heart to read an assignment from one of my graduate students about her experiences with being bullied as a new nurse.  She wrote, "I was demeaned by my preceptor for being stupid.  She told me I did not have a brain. I was afraid to speak up.  It resulted in many sleepless nights, callouts and emotional stress for me."  This … [Read more...]

Promoting a Culture of Learning

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit one of two Dedicated Education Units (DEU) that are a collaborative effort between the University of Southern Indiana and Deaconess and St Mary's Medical Centers.  These are well established DEUs with strong academic-practice relationships.  The impact of the DEUs on patient outcomes such as … [Read more...]

Nurse Leader Insight: Nurses Speak Out About their Profession

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Nate Silver in his 2012 book The Signal and the Noise wrote about the challenges of making predictions and distinguishing what is a true signal in a noisy environment.  It is therefore always interesting to review national studies on nursing and what nurses report about their profession.  The noise that we hear is often in our … [Read more...]