Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Navigating the Dunning-Krueger Effect on Units with an Inverse Pyramid of Experience

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A nurse leader recently asked me how to manage overconfidence with her novice team. She told me that many of her newest nurses had challenges taking feedback. She further explained: "Ironically, some of my new graduates think they are very high performers when they are not. I think they are comparing themselves to other nurses with a … [Read more...]

The Trust Battery: Every Conversation Either Charges It or Drains It

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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...]

Gritty Facts and Gritty Faith

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I heard Brené Brown on her The Curiosity Shop podcast talk about the importance of team members being willing to bring up gritty facts while also having the gritty faith that problems can be solved. Nurse leaders often bring this up in leadership development sessions. Every nurse manager has had the experience of walking into the … [Read more...]

Job Hugging in Nursing

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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...]

Coaching Generation Z into Charge Nurse Roles

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Ask any nurse manager about the current state of their units, and they will likely describe a stark reality: an "inverted pyramid" of experience. Highly experienced clinicians are retiring or moving away from the bedside, leaving nursing units staffed predominantly by early-career professionals. As a result, Generation Z nurses (born … [Read more...]