Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Doing Less with Less

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”   Peter Drucker Over the last five years, we have repeatedly heard in healthcare about the need to do "more with less".  Many nurse leaders today believe that they have reached the peak of what they can reasonably expect relative to staff productivity with current … [Read more...]

Building a More Agile Nursing Workforce

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I recently attended a meeting with nurse leaders focused on succession planning.  One of the leaders expressed concern about the readiness of her staff to adapt to what the future of healthcare could be.  She illustrated her concern with a story about a position that her facility had recently advertised for a community care coordinator.  … [Read more...]

Nurse Leader Insight: Redefining Organizational Loyalty

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN A nurse leader recently complained to me about Generation Y's lack of organizational loyalty.  I asked her how she defined organizational loyalty.  Her complaint centered around the turnover of new graduates in her organization.  She was finding that few were staying beyond three years.  Like many leaders today, she was defining … [Read more...]

Leading Generation Y Nurses

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN There is an interesting change happening in the nursing workforce.  Recent data from the Bureau of Health Professions (nursingworkforcebrief) indicates that the number of nurses under the age of 30 in the workforce is steadily increasing.  Generation Y (born between 1981 and 2000) nurses now comprise around 15% of the workforce but … [Read more...]

Why a Sense of Community Matters on Nursing Units

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone."   Margaret Wheatley The Holiday season is a joyful one for most but not all of us.  For some people, it raises issues … [Read more...]