Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Feeling Fear but Taking the Plunge

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN One of my graduate students is a very high potential nurse leader in a rapidly expanding health system.  She is on a fast track to the CNO role and is afraid.   She told me that she was worried about failure - what if I can't do the job and let everyone down.  I asked her what is the worst thing that could possibly happen if she … [Read more...]

Meeting the Needs of Our New Graduates

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN It is spring and nurse leaders are already interviewing candidates for their nurse residency programs.   It may not surprise you to learn that the highest turnover in most nursing organizations occurs with new graduates in their first year of nursing practice. In many organizations today, it is close to 25%.  This is a significant … [Read more...]

Avoiding These Top Ten Leadership Mistakes

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN It is always interesting to ask nurse leaders about the mistakes that they have made in their roles.  Most leadership mistakes are not big failures, but smaller mistakes that they often repeated early in their careers.  Experience is a good teacher but as one seasoned leader laughingly told me, “to be honest, I was not a quick … [Read more...]

Fostering Trust Takes Time

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN One of my graduate students who recently became a manager complained to me that her staff did not trust her.  She had only been in the role for 3 months.  She is the third manager in five years.  This trend of frequent turnover of managers is very concerning because we know that trust takes time to build.  It is an essential building … [Read more...]

Accepting Accountability

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I had an interesting discussion with a graduate student this week.  She was making excuses as to why she had not paid her tuition bill on time for the semester, and was subsequently dropped from a course.  She ended up having to pay a late fee to get reinstated.  She was full of excuses as to why it happened - moving from "her busy … [Read more...]