This blog is for new and aspiring nurse leaders throughout the world who are interested in nursing leadership as career path. You may be in your first nursing leadership position or perhaps you just became a Registered Nurse but see leadership in your future. My goal is to provide you with leadership development information that is cutting edge and incorporates best practices … [Read more...]
Establishing an Ask Anything Culture
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I have been surprised by how many nurse leaders have recently told me they are having trouble getting staff to speak up and ask questions. As one leader explained it to me: I am not sure what is going on. I used to not be able to suppress my staff's curiosity. They asked so many questions. I tell my new grads today that my door is … [Read more...]
Reimagining the Charge Nurse in the Inverted Pyramid of Nursing Experience
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC In most leader development workshops I do today, experienced nurse leaders now discuss how challenging it is to recruit nurses into charge nurse roles. Fewer experienced nurses want to take charge, and charge nurse burnout is now a major concern. A nurse manager recently shared this story: So our hospital recently announced a charge … [Read more...]
The Nurse Leader Agenda: 10 Priorities That Matter Right Now
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN If you ask a group of nurse leaders what keeps them awake at night, staffing will usually top the list. But in 2026, the leadership agenda has become far more complicated than filling open nursing positions. Today's nurse leaders are managing a workforce that looks very different from the one they led just five years ago. Teams are … [Read more...]
What We Risk When Novice Nurses Go Part-Time
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC In today’s healthcare environment, flexibility is often hailed as the ultimate cure for nurse burnout and the key to retaining staff. Across the country, health systems are reimagining traditional staffing models to accommodate the evolving expectations of the modern workforce. One of the most noticeable emerging trends is that novice … [Read more...]
The Inverted Pyramid: How a Perfect Storm Eroded Acute Care Nursing Experience
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN During Inverted Pyramid workshops, I am often asked: How did we get to a place where experienced acute care nurses are in such short supply? This question reminds me of a dialogue in one of Ernest Hemingway's novels, The Sun Also Rises. One of the book's characters asked the other, "How did you go bankrupt?" The character answers, "A … [Read more...]
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