Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

4 Strategies to Become a More Innovative Thinker

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."  - Albert Einstein One of our younger graduate students recently developed a simple, elegant and low cost solution to a patient safety issue that had plagued her organization.  The senior nurse leaders she worked with were quite impressed with her … [Read more...]

How to do Nursing Presentations like a Pro

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "Be sincere; be brief, be seated.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt, on speechmaking One of my students recently told me that she had a great fear of public speaking.  She was scheduled as part of a leadership practicum to give a formal presentation to a leadership team on a project that she had recently completed.  This student is certainly … [Read more...]

The Introverted Nurse Leader

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform”   Susan Cain One of my students … [Read more...]

Are Nurse Leaders Responsible for their Staff’s Happiness at Work?

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."  Dalai Lama Several years ago, I had a conversation with two nurse managers regarding the challenge of keeping their staff happy.  The novice manager ,in her first year of leadership practice, lamented that she was unsure if she could ever do enough to keep some of … [Read more...]

10 Common Mistakes that Nurse Leaders Make

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”   John Maxwell 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 … [Read more...]