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
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
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...]
Why Leading in a Unionized Environment Has Become More Complicated
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA- BC, FAAN A colleague of mine has to relocate for family reasons. She is currently a CNO in a non-unionized environment in a right-to-work state where few hospitals are unionized. She has no personal experience leading in a unionized environment at any level. She now plans to move to a region where most hospitals are unionized, and there has … [Read more...]
Conducting a Pre-Mortem: Avoiding Leadership Burnout Before It Starts
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Recently, a nurse manager reached out to me for advice on a situation she is now confronting in her organization. She is a nurse manager who leads a busy cardiac care unit and has been asked by her CNO to pick up a second department - the Cardiac Interventional Procedural Unit. This would be a new area for her and would add … [Read more...]
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