Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

Leading Nurses Who Don’t Plan to Stay Forever

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I recently spoke with a distraught nurse manager. She had just lost a stellar nurse who had been in her department for only 24 months. She said, "Our team poured so much mentoring into him as a new perioperative nurse, and now he’s leaving for a travel contract. From one perspective, I understand where he is coming from - he has … [Read more...]

We Need Your Help – Nurse Manager Research Study

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NURSE MANAGERS: YOUR EXPERIENCE MATTERS Amy Trueblood invites you to participate in a research study exploring the experiences of hospital-based nurse managers after emotionally challenging events. The purpose is to describe the nurse manager's experience after events in which patients or staff were harmed, including unexpected patient outcomes, medical errors, or traumatic … [Read more...]

Using AI as Your Leadership Co-Pilot in 2026

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Many nurse leaders I speak with are hesitant about using Artificial Intelligence. They worry it will depersonalize care or replace the critical thinking we value so highly. But a better metaphor is to envision AI as your co-pilot. It doesn't fly the plane, but it handles navigation, weather checks, and radio comms so you can … [Read more...]

My Top 4 Takeaways from 2025

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN As we get ready to close out 2025, I’ve been reflecting on the conversations I’ve had with nurse leaders across the country this year. If 2023 and 2024 were about "surviving the aftershocks," 2025 has been the year of reckoning with our new reality. The workforce has fundamentally changed, and so have the economics of healthcare … [Read more...]

The January Exodus: Why You Need to Re-Recruit Your Team Now

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN It is mid-December. If you are like most nurse leaders I talk to right now, your brain is occupied by two things: getting the holiday schedule covered and surviving until your own time off begins. But while you are focused on the immediate logistics of the holidays, many of your staff members are focused on something else entirely: … [Read more...]