Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

An Update on Brenna

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN What are the odds you would talk about a nurse's onboarding experience and then unknowingly have her in the audience when you present a poignant post she wrote on LinkedIn? It happened to me at the OR Manager's conference a few weeks ago. In a keynote, I talked about Brenna's rocky onboarding experience as outlined in the LinkedIn … [Read more...]

Rethinking Meetings

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN All of us have probably had the experience of attending a meeting where there were no outcomes, and the conversation drifted way off the subject of the original intent of the meeting.  Participants leave meetings like this feeling de-energized and perhaps even angry that their time has been wasted.  It can become difficult to maintain … [Read more...]

Watch Your Use of Emojis

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A nurse manager shared the story: "I love to use emojis in my texts to staff. I recently sent a thumbs-upemoji to one of my staff to congratulate her on a well-done job. It had quite the opposite effect when she told me that a thumbs-up emoji is passive-aggressive in her world. I checked with some of my younger staff, and they … [Read more...]

Talking About the Nursing Shortage

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A manager who attended a recruitment and retention workshop recently shared the following observation: "As I listened to you discuss the current shortage and how pervasive it is, I realized that we had not done a great job of communicating this to our staff or leaders for that matter. I have a high level of frustration about … [Read more...]

What I Learned From Perioperative Leaders

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Last week, I had the honor of spending time with the over 700 nurse leaders who attended the OR Nurse Manager conference. It was the first time in three years that the meeting had been live. I first participated in this conference almost a decade ago and presented research on succession planning for the perioperative nursing … [Read more...]