Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Nurse Leader Priorities for 2016

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By Rose O. Sherman, RN, EdD, FAAN Leadership planning in today's healthcare environment can be extremely challenging.  As one nurse executive recently told me, "it is like trying to solve a puzzle without all the pieces in place."  Yet, deciding on what strategies to implement is important in leadership.  This week, Nursing Advisory Board released From our experts_ What you … [Read more...]

The Nurse Leader Coach

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I was talking with a group of nurse leaders today about why we often wait to too long to deal with performance issues.  Many leaders hope behaviors will just go away, or they may know that a performance review is right around the corner so they will deal with it then.  But is this the right approach?  Perhaps our perspective on performance … [Read more...]

The Importance of Learning from Failure

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”   Winston Churchill By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC I recently met with a young nurse leader who was heartbroken over her lack of success in her first leadership role.  She had made many mistakes because of a lack of we preparation that was not totally her responsibility.  She … [Read more...]

Normalization of Deviance in a Just Culture

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN One of my nurse leader students was relating an incident that had recently happened on her unit with a young millennial nurse.  The nurse was experiencing problems with the smart pump that she was using to administer an IV medication.  Her solution was to reprogram the machine herself although it was clearly against medical center … [Read more...]

When Leaders Don’t Respond to Emails

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN. FAAN A colleague recently discussed with me her concern about nurse leaders in her organization who don't respond to their emails despite acknowledgement within the organization that it is the official means of communication.  She told me that it was disheartening to send an email to her supervisor and have it go unacknowledged.  From a … [Read more...]