Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Are You Addicted to Meetings?

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.” — William Goldman, screenwriter, novelist. Managing time is very challenging for nurse leaders in today's environment.  A colleague recently told me that she had little time to … [Read more...]

The “Selling” Aspect of the Nurse Leader Role

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "We're All in Sales Now - Some 1 in 9 workers still earn a living in traditional sales. The other 8 in 9 are engaged in "non-sales selling." We devote upward of 40 percent of our time on the job to moving others."   Daniel Pink Most nurse leaders would probably not consider themselves to be in sales.  Daniel Pink in his new highly … [Read more...]

The Importance of Second Chances

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”   George Bernard Shaw "Will you take another chance on me? " This was a question that one of my former students who had failed out the graduate program asked me.  She had begun her graduate work when she was young, immature and lacking … [Read more...]

When the Nurse Leader is the Bully

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt An article  in  the January 2013 issue of Advance for Nurses describes a new anti-bullying movement started by Cole Edmonson, the Chief Nursing Officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse … [Read more...]

To Friend or Not to Friend

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I was recently contacted by a former student, now a nurse manager, to discuss a situation that had upset her.  This manager is a very popular with her staff and had friended most of them on Facebook.  She told me that one of her nurses had called in sick on a busy weekend leaving her unit short of staff.  The manager later went on this … [Read more...]