Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

The Nurse Leader Coach

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I was talking with a group of nurse leaders today about why we often wait to too long to deal with performance issues.  Many leaders hope behaviors will just go away, or they may know that a performance review is right around the corner so they will deal with it then.  But is this the right approach?  Perhaps our perspective on performance … [Read more...]

Modeling the Way as a Leader

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nothing frustrates staff more than nurse leaders who say one thing and then do something quite different.   When you think about leadership the words: trust, credibility, relationships, communication, and consistency come to mind to name a few. The importance of connecting your words with action is critical in developing into a true … [Read more...]

The Importance of Learning from Failure

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”   Winston Churchill By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC I recently met with a young nurse leader who was heartbroken over her lack of success in her first leadership role.  She had made many mistakes because of a lack of we preparation that was not totally her responsibility.  She … [Read more...]

Emerging Nurse Leader Resolutions for 2016

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "Someone will write a resolution that says, I want to exercise more or I want to lose 15 pounds - which is a great goal to have - but every study tells us that if you pose things in abstract terms; it is much less likely that you will accomplish it than if you structure it as an actual activity"  Charles Duhigg, author of the Power of … [Read more...]

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...]