Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Normalization of Deviance in a Just Culture

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN One of my nurse leader students was relating an incident that had recently happened on her unit with a young millennial nurse.  The nurse was experiencing problems with the smart pump that she was using to administer an IV medication.  Her solution was to reprogram the machine herself although it was clearly against medical center … [Read more...]

When Leaders Don’t Respond to Emails

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN. FAAN A colleague recently discussed with me her concern about nurse leaders in her organization who don't respond to their emails despite acknowledgement within the organization that it is the official means of communication.  She told me that it was disheartening to send an email to her supervisor and have it go unacknowledged.  From a … [Read more...]

Positive Work Environments

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “All workplaces can be healthy if nurses and employers are resolute in their desire to address not only the physical environment, but also less tangible barriers to staff and patient safety”.  The American Association of Critical Care Nurses The necessity of creating a positive work culture can be easily lost In today’s turbulent … [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 Managing conflict is a key skill that nurse leaders need to develop.  Like it or not, conflict is inevitable in organizational life.  It does not need to be as destructive as it sometimes it.  In today’s … [Read more...]

CNO Advice for New Nurse Leaders

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As  I mentioned in a previous blog, each year in our Introduction to Nursing Leadership graduate course, students select a chief  nursing officer in a health care agency to interview.  The students have a list of questions that they ask and then add some of their own.  One of the questions that the students enjoy hearing the answer to involves the advice that these seasoned … [Read more...]