Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Using Staff Feedback to Improve Your Leadership

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Leadership expert Ken Blanchard has described feedback as the breakfast of champions but many nurse leaders will tell you that it can be difficult to swallow.  I was recently talking with a leader who told me that staff had reported on a recent satisfaction survey that she had become almost invisible on the unit.  Like many nurse leaders in … [Read more...]

The Cost of Nurse Leader Turnover

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I was recently talking with an international nurse leader who told me about the high rate of what he described as "leadership churn" in his country's national health system.  He feels that based on his recent research, it is coming at a significant cost relative to the work environment, nurse perceptions of leadership support and care … [Read more...]

Making Your Career Goals Known

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I was recently talking with a former student who expressed frustration because her organization was going to an outside recruitment firm to recruit for a position that she is interested in applying for.  Evidently, the senior leadership has indicated that there are no internal candidates.  I asked her to tell me how explicit she had been in … [Read more...]

What is Happening with RN Retirements?

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN For years, we have been hearing that Registered Nurses are delaying employment.  Nurse leaders have noted that their staff seem to aging in place.  Retirement delays have been attributed to the challenges that new graduates are having finding employment.  We now have data with a study published this month in Health Affairs about how patterns … [Read more...]

Risk Taking in Nursing Leadership

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"Do one thing every day that scares you."   Eleanor Roosevelt By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN A nurse leader recently talked with me about some of her challenges in her organization.  "My nurse leaders are very risk adverse.......they want the evidence for every new innovation and sometimes there just isn't any", she observed.  Overcoming our willingness to take risks … [Read more...]