Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Playing the Long Game in Leadership

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN These are tough times to be a nurse leader. You may be asking yourself the question - do I really want to do this anymore?  So many leaders from the frontline to the C-suite have verbalized this sentiment to me in the last six months. Nursing needs leaders like you more than ever. A staff nurse recently told me on a webinar … [Read more...]

Intent to Leave Nursing – A New Phenomenon?

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN               What have you changed your mind about relative to the nursing workforce? This is a question that I often ask leaders and reflect on myself. For most of the four decades that I have worked in nursing, I have rarely seen nurses leave the profession. Their jobs … [Read more...]

Another Kind of Moral Distress

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN "I can't do this again." Over the past 3 weeks, frontline nurse leaders tell me that they hear this from staff as regions quickly move into a fourth COVID surge driven largely by the Delta variant and significant percentages of the population who remain unvaccinated.  Some nurses have not recovered from their experiences in the … [Read more...]

Using Net Promoter Data to Improve Retention

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN   Net Promoter or Net Promoter Scores are a widely used market research metric that typically takes the form of a survey question asking respondents to rate the likelihood that they would recommend a company, product, or service to a friend or colleague.  It is part of the HCAHPS patient satisfaction assessment. I have … [Read more...]

When Nursing Workforce Data Helps to Explain What is Happening

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN             One of the challenges for nurse leaders in looking at what is happening with the workforce is access to good current data. There is so little out there right now. That is why the recent 2020 National Nursing Workforce study published in the April 2021 issue of the … [Read more...]