Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Nursing Turnover is Again on the Rise

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A CNO recently reached out to ask me what I was seeing in nursing recruitment and retention. She had just reviewed the nurse turnover for the previous quarter in her large hospital and was surprised to see that it was now trending upward. I assured her that she is not alone. The recently released 2026 National Health Care Retention … [Read more...]

Pulling the Future Forward

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I have recently been talking with nurse leaders about the Inverted Pyramid seen in so many acute care environments today. Our traditional staffing methodologies, leadership strategies, and care delivery mechanisms are failing because they were built in a world where nursing experience was abundant at the bedside. Today, we are in … [Read more...]

What Nurse Leaders Are Getting Wrong About Generation Z

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Delivering workshops on Building Bridges, Not Walls: Leading Multigenerational Nursing Teams has given me the opportunity to speak with up-and-coming Generation Z nurse leaders across the country. I am always interested in what we are getting right in terms of meeting the needs of their generation, but more importantly, what we are … [Read more...]

Staying Power: Building a Culture of Retention Workshop – May 19th Open to All Leaders

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The term "fragile stability" is being used to describe what is happening with the nursing workforce today. Most healthcare systems are having greater success with their nurse recruitment efforts, but retention is a much greater challenge. High turnover rates not only affect the quality of patient care and team morale but also increase financial costs at a time when resources … [Read more...]

Conducting a Pre-Mortem: Avoiding Leadership Burnout Before It Starts

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Recently, a nurse manager reached out to me for advice on a situation she is now confronting in her organization. She is a nurse manager who leads a busy cardiac care unit and has been asked by her CNO to pick up a second department - the Cardiac Interventional Procedural Unit. This would be a new area for her and would add … [Read more...]