Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Why Feedback Fails

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "Good feedback is hard to come by.  It is difficult to give, difficult to elicit and difficult to receive".   Sylvia Ann Hewlitt If you ask any nursing leader about challenging parts of the role, the issue of having to give negative performance feedback is high on the list of least favorite leadership activities.  Too often, it gets put … [Read more...]

C-Suite Competencies in an Era of Health Reform

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Many young nurse leaders aspire to executive roles in health care and wonder what key competencies they will be expected to have in this changing health care environment.  A study released in April 2014 by the American Hospital Association titled Building  Leadership Team for the Health Care Organization of the Future provides some … [Read more...]

Nurse Leader Insight: Nurses Speak Out About their Profession

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Nate Silver in his 2012 book The Signal and the Noise wrote about the challenges of making predictions and distinguishing what is a true signal in a noisy environment.  It is therefore always interesting to review national studies on nursing and what nurses report about their profession.  The noise that we hear is often in our … [Read more...]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Retirement

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I am always looking for interesting blog topics.  This week in California, I met a critical care nurse working for the Cottage Health System who encouraged me to share her story in this blog and even suggested the title.  After a long nursing career and 8 years in a nurse leader role, she knew that she wanted to slow down as she moved toward … [Read more...]

Nurse Leader – Nursing Staff Relationships in an Era of Health Reform

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN When he was mayor of New York City, Ed Koch used to walk the streets and ask the question "how am I doing?".  This is a brave question and one that I would bet few of us ask our staff because we may not want to hear the answer.  My nurse leader colleagues have been telling me for the past several years that they feel their relationships with … [Read more...]