By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”   Patrick Lencioni   Casey Stengel, the beloved manager of many major league baseball teams, once noted that “Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story”.  The same could be … [Read more...]

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN There are many good resources about how to be a great nursing leader.  You will find far less written about the kinds of behaviors that can derail your career, some of which you may engage in unknowingly.  Consider the following case study: Miranda Perez is oncology nurse with five years of experience.  She recently enrolled in a graduate … [Read more...]

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN It is spring and many nurse leaders will be hiring new graduates to join their staff.   It may not surprise you to learn that the highest turnover in most nursing organizations occurs with new graduates in their first year of nursing practice.  The RN Work Project  funded by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation is a longitudinal study that … [Read more...]