Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

The Nurse Engagement and Retention Conundrum

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC Historically, we have believed and it has been true that nurse engagement was closely linked to nurse retention.  In fact, the return on investment on projects to engage staff is often linked to lower turnover.  This picture appears to be changing with our millennial nursing cohort who now comprise about 32% of the workforce and will … [Read more...]

Creating a More Accountable Staff

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I visited a clinical site recently where one of my graduate students was doing an administrative practicum.  She had an incredibly good experience with a very dynamic nurse leader.  She was however surprised at the lack of accountability she observed in many RN staff when challenges with performance measures were being … [Read more...]

Bullying – A Normalization of Deviance

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Recently, a nursing colleague was telling me about a unit that she had recently begun to manage.  She was totally shocked at the amount of bullying that was occurring particularly involving her newest staff.  She commented that the bullying behaviors had become normalized into the culture and the previous nurse manager had not dealt with it … [Read more...]

The Power of Introverted Leaders

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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...]

Managing Conflict

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us”  Stephen Covey A nurse leader recently told me that conflict was the bane of her existence - she just avoids it whenever possible.  Like it or not, conflict is inevitable in organizational life.  It does not need to be as … [Read more...]