Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Lead With Gratitude This Week

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN   We have two powerful tools in our leadership toolbox: gratitude and appreciation. What is so interesting about gratitude is that while you make others feel good, Harvard research has found that thanking others will also make you happier. In positive psychology research, gratitude is strongly and consistently associated … [Read more...]

Dispelling an Outdated Leadership Tenet

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By Rose O. Sherman, Ed.D, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Like many of you, throughout my leadership career, I was taught that nurses don't leave organizations - they leave leaders. This leadership tenet may have been true at one time, but not today. Nurses are leaving their jobs for many reasons, and on most surveys today, their immediate manager is not even in the top five. Yet I … [Read more...]

An Update on Brenna

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN What are the odds you would talk about a nurse's onboarding experience and then unknowingly have her in the audience when you present a poignant post she wrote on LinkedIn? It happened to me at the OR Manager's conference a few weeks ago. In a keynote, I talked about Brenna's rocky onboarding experience as outlined in the LinkedIn … [Read more...]

Watch Your Use of Emojis

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A nurse manager shared the story: "I love to use emojis in my texts to staff. I recently sent a thumbs-upemoji to one of my staff to congratulate her on a well-done job. It had quite the opposite effect when she told me that a thumbs-up emoji is passive-aggressive in her world. I checked with some of my younger staff, and they … [Read more...]

Talking About the Nursing Shortage

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A manager who attended a recruitment and retention workshop recently shared the following observation: "As I listened to you discuss the current shortage and how pervasive it is, I realized that we had not done a great job of communicating this to our staff or leaders for that matter. I have a high level of frustration about … [Read more...]