Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Dealing with Negative Gossip

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I spent most of last week at the American Organization of Nurse Executives meeting talking with leaders across the country about a wide range of issues.  One young manager asked me to write a blog on how to best deal with negative gossip in units and departments when it "has gotten out of control".  In this case, it was happening in … [Read more...]

Using Questions for Career Development

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I was recently interviewed by a young nurse manager as part of a leadership class that she was taking.  Her questions were excellent and reminded me of the importance of using questions for career development.  About 15 years ago, I moved after many years from working as a leader in the practice setting to teaching in academia.  An … [Read more...]

Why Work Environment Matters

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Intrinsically, we know that the quality of the work environment should impact outcomes.  There has been research in this area but none using the level of big data analysis recently done by researchers at Press Gainey as reported by Nell Buhlman in the March 2016 issue of American Nurse Today. They were interested in studying the impact of … [Read more...]

Shining a Light on Your Staff

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “A leader is someone with the power to project either shadow or light upon some part of the world, and upon the lives of the people who dwell there.”    Parker Palmer I recently read a column by a business analyst who observed that he learned a lot about the culture of the company through reading their annual report.  He had a … [Read more...]

What Successful Nurse Leaders Never Do Again

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN The late Peter Drucker, an internationally known leadership expert, frequently noted that we spend a great deal of time telling our leaders what to do but far less time advising them what not to do.  This is because we are so focused on what will lead to our success that we spend little time talking about potential problems.  Yet, all of … [Read more...]