By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." Stephen Covey Several years ago, I was involved in a series of 10 charge nurse workshops conducted by a large health system. As part of these workshops, we surveyed the 350 charge nurses who attended about their thoughts about their role challenges and qualities important to doing the … [Read more...]
10 Common Mistakes that Nurse Leaders Make
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” John Maxwell It is always interesting to ask nurse leaders about the mistakes that they have made in their roles. Most leadership mistakes are not big failures, but smaller mistakes that they often repeated early in … [Read more...]
Creating Psychological Safety in Our Workplaces
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN “To create a psychologically safe environment requires at a minimum that you establish trust, boundaries, and a sense of control in the team or social environment.” Robert J. Marshak Over the past decade in healthcare, there has been a significant focus on patient safety. Many tools and procedures such as hand-off communication and … [Read more...]
The Power of Leadership Networking
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN Last week, I had an opportunity to attend a session of the new Nurse Executive Leadership series that is being launched this year by as a collaborative partnership effort by the American Organization of Operating Room Nurses (AORN), the AORN foundation, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Ethicon Inc. and Advanced Sterilization Products. These leadership … [Read more...]
Building More Collaborative Relationships between Clinical Nurses and Nurse Managers
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller In my discussions and research with nurse managers, I have found that one of their most significant challenges in today's environment is building close collaborative, working relationships with the nurses that they lead. Nurse managers today supervise an average … [Read more...]
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