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...]

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...]

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Last week, I had the honor of spending time with the over 700 nurse leaders who attended the OR Nurse Manager conference. It was the first time in three years that the meeting had been live. I first participated in this conference almost a decade ago and presented research on succession planning for the perioperative nursing … [Read more...]