Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Bridging the Experience Gap: Hardwiring Patient Surveillance on Your Unit

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN As I look at the landscape of acute care today, I see a profound shift that keeps many leaders up at night. We are leading a workforce with a high concentration of novice nurses—talented, eager, but fundamentally lacking the "clinical mileage" that seasoned veterans rely on. When we talk about patient safety in this context, we often … [Read more...]

Participants Needed for a Research Study on Nurse Wellbeing

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Many of you who have attended my programs know how complicated achieving well-being is in today's turbulent healthcare environment. When you add in other responsibilities, such as caretaking outside of work, it can be even more challenging. As leaders, we need to better understand the challenges to design effective solutions. Please consider participating in the study below and … [Read more...]

Beyond the Expert Nurse: Why Your Team’s Collective IQ Matters Today

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN As we have discussed in previous blogs, today's acute care nursing teams are often composed primarily of novices. As organizations work to build higher-reliability cultures and improve safety and quality, leveraging the collective intelligence of the team is an important conversation that often does not take place. In their … [Read more...]

Just in Time Education for New Leaders

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Do you need some just-in-time education for your new leaders? These two upcoming programs sponsored by the NE ONL might be a great fit to help jump-start their success as leaders. We have had so many new nurse leaders on these programs comment on how valuable these one-day programs are in helping them avoid rookie errors. Give your new leaders the gift of one day to learn, … [Read more...]

Revisiting Situational Leadership

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I have been thinking a lot recently about the drivers for both nurse leader and workforce burnout and exhaustion. What has changed in this post-COVID environment that has brought us to where we are today? Will money and more staff solve the problem as unions suggest? There is so much complexity in what we see in healthcare … [Read more...]