Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Maintaining Positivity

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN How do I stay positive? It is a question that many leaders now ask in the face of significant staffing shortages, mounting budget issues, and a turbulent healthcare environment. Consider the following story a leader shared with me: By nature, I am an optimist, but now it is hard. I am seeing levels of negativity from staff that I … [Read more...]

The Power of Teamwork

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN They call the NCAA Basketball finals March Madness for a reason. The unpredictable can and does happen. How does a little-known team with few nationally recruited players make it to the NCAA tournament for the first time and then to the final four? The team is Florida Atlantic University. They lost by one point on Saturday night to … [Read more...]

Handling Negative Feedback

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nursing leadership roles are challenging today. The last thing most leaders want is negative feedback about their performance. Consider a story a leader recently told me: I was depressed for days after I saw our all-employee survey results. It seems everyone wants to blame someone for what is happening, and I feel like an easy … [Read more...]

Team Communication

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Poor communication skills in healthcare environments can lead to medical errors, fragmented care, poor team coordination, and incivility. Most problems that occur in teams are traceable back to challenges with communication. So consider the following stories that leaders and friends (not in healthcare) have told me during the last … [Read more...]

Being Promoted from Within

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Promotions from within can be tricky.  Not everyone will be thrilled that you were selected for the position. A new nurse manager recently told me about her struggles managing her former peers. While initially, the staff seemed happy with her selection, she is now finding resistance especially when she attempts to hold her former … [Read more...]