Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Personal and Professional Boundaries in Nurse Leader Roles

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN New nurse leaders often confront the challenge of balancing personal and professional boundaries.  I was reminded of this recently when a Chief Nursing Officer shared a story about one of her young leaders who was having a difficult time doing this.  The young nurse had taken a leadership role on a unit where she had been a staff nurse … [Read more...]

Are Nurses Ready for Patient Directed Health Care?

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Several weeks ago, I interviewed the Chief Nursing Officer for a large healthcare system.  We talked about her role and the challenges that nurses will face with healthcare reform.  During our conversation, she made an interesting observation.  In the future, she said, Patients need to be taking control of their health care, and we need … [Read more...]

Developing Financial Savvy as Nurse Leaders

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Many of my graduate students tell me that their weakest leadership area is the financial management of their units and departments.  At the same time when I ask executive nurse leaders what they look for in candidates, financial savvy is high on the list.  A critical care director who manages multiple units recently told me that she … [Read more...]

A World with No Hospitals

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Picture a World Without Hospitals was the provocative title to a keynote speech that Dr. Eric Topol gave to hospital executives at an AHA Health Forum conference last week.  Dr. Topol is a physician and director of translational sciences at Scripps in California.  He is also author of the book The Creative Destruction of Medicine:  How the … [Read more...]

Is Rate Your Nurse Leader in Our Future?

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I received an interesting request from one of our graduate students last week.  She was looking for an alternative to a required class because she was concerned about the professor's negative ratings on the Rate My Professors site.  Ironically, this request came shortly after I attended as session on Rateocracy: When Everyone and Everything … [Read more...]