Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Why Novice Dense Units Need Clinically Expert Nurse Managers

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN For years, nurse managers have asked me what I think about taking on leadership responsibilities on units where they have no clinical expertise. With fewer leadership candidates, organizations have increasingly asked their leaders to do so. In modern healthcare leadership, a persistent management philosophy suggests that leadership … [Read more...]

Gritty Facts and Gritty Faith

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I heard Brené Brown on her The Curiosity Shop podcast talk about the importance of team members being willing to bring up gritty facts while also having the gritty faith that problems can be solved. Nurse leaders often bring this up in leadership development sessions. Every nurse manager has had the experience of walking into the … [Read more...]

Job Hugging in Nursing

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN For years, the dominant narrative in nursing workforce data was mobility. Leaders were chasing high turnover and competing with lucrative travel contracts. But a quiet shift is happening on some clinical units: nurses are staying put. Job Hugging is the practice of holding onto a current position, not necessarily out of deep … [Read more...]

Coaching Generation Z into Charge Nurse Roles

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Ask any nurse manager about the current state of their units, and they will likely describe a stark reality: an "inverted pyramid" of experience. Highly experienced clinicians are retiring or moving away from the bedside, leaving nursing units staffed predominantly by early-career professionals. As a result, Generation Z nurses (born … [Read more...]

Navigating The Loss of Tacit Nursing Knowledge in Acute Care

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Every nurse manager recognizes the difference between having textbook knowledge and clinical mastery. It’s the ability to look at a patient from the doorway and know they are deteriorating before the vitals even change. It’s knowing exactly how to maneuver a difficult specialty catheter, or how to de-escalate a family’s mounting … [Read more...]