Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Nurse Leader Insight: The Importance of First Followers

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I was talking to a colleague at a recent conference about teaching leadership to nursing students.  He told me that he always points out to students the power in being a first follower.  In 2010, a TED talk video by Derek Silver illustrating the idea of first followers was posted and went viral with more than 3 million views to date.  The … [Read more...]

The Digital Professional Image of Nurses

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN This past week, I had an opportunity to do a TV satellite broadcast for the Voluntary Hospital Association.  The topic was on Professional Boundaries and Practice in a Facebook Age.  There were excellent questions posted by the nationwide audience of nurse leaders.  This topic is obviously a hot leadership issue and because it is such a new … [Read more...]

Nurse Leader Insight: Our Choice of Words

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.”    Ben Galley A nurse leader told me a story about a leadership development program that she had recently attended.  As part of a take home assignment, they were asked to track for one week how many times they used the word "no".  It turned out to be very … [Read more...]

The Myth that Nurses Leave Nursing

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN I frequently read papers from our nursing graduate students on the topic of the nursing shortage.  Often, I find that information included in these papers from recently published articles is dated, and does not reflect current changes in the nursing workforce.  More troubling  are the number of nurse authors that the students cite that … [Read more...]

Generational Differences in the Nursing Workforce

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN This past week, I was interviewed by Robin Farmer from the Minority Nurse about generational differences in the nursing workforce.  She asked an important question - is some of what we are seeing just differences in one's life stage versus a true generational difference?  There are certainly some differences such as communication … [Read more...]