Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Being Promoted from Within

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Promotions from within can be tricky.  Not everyone will be thrilled that you were selected for the position. A new nurse manager recently told me about her struggles managing her former peers. While initially, the staff seemed happy with her selection, she is now finding resistance especially when she attempts to hold her former … [Read more...]

What’s Trending Now

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN What has been interesting in my leadership development work is examining the trends that emerge over time. We are almost at the end of the first quarter of 2023, and here is what leaders are telling me now: Nursing turnover is about at the same rate as in 2022, with minimal improvement noted in most health systems with … [Read more...]

Letting A New Graduate Go

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Letting a new graduate go during probation is a difficult topic that we rarely discuss but has come up in several leadership development sessions recently. A nurse manager related the following story: It is hard to even talk about this as I still feel guilty, although I know I should not. I just terminated one of our new … [Read more...]

The Illusion of Leadership Control

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A nurse manager recently told me that she felt like her unit was being held together by rubber bands and paper clips. She confessed that I am a major control freak, and this lack of predictability in our healthcare environment drives me crazy. I used to have a good sense of what nurses were thinking and who was unhappy. Today, one of … [Read more...]

Teaching Nurses Situational Awareness

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN We are experiencing a shocking number of physical assaults in our healthcare environments. In testimony given to Congress about pending legislation on workplace violence now in Congress, leaders from the American Nurses Association reported that one in four nurses had been physically assaulted on the job, but many of these … [Read more...]