Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

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...]

Thinking Like a Nurse Futurist

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "Change is the only law of life.  Those who only look to the past or present are certain to miss the future."  John F. Kennedy This week I am in Chicago attending the annual meeting of the World Future Society.  This is a society with a mission to investigate how social, economic and technological developments are shaping the future.  The … [Read more...]

Rethinking our Biases about Professional Motivations

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Long ago, I was a nurse recruiter at a large VA Medical Center.  We had advertised a vacancy for a surgical intensive care unit nurse manager.  I was interviewing an excellent candidate with a strong ICU leadership background.  She had recently moved to a community that almost 50 miles from our medical center.  I was perplexed as to why she … [Read more...]