By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN One question that nurse leaders often ask today is how to expedite the process of building trust with their team. As nurse leaders, we understand that trust is built over time—and it is. But I've come to believe that trust is also much more dynamic than that. It behaves like a battery. Every interaction you have with a team member … [Read more...]
When Nurses Pushback on Assignments
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I am hearing from an increasing number of nurse managers, clinical managers, and charge nurses that many nurses are vigorously pushing back on patient care assignments they have been given. One permanent night charge nurse gave the following case example during a program: Jason is an RN on your unit who recently completed his … [Read more...]
Making Sense of RN Turnover
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nursing turnover is a complex issue for health systems that are spending considerable sums to improve their work environments. Two recently released studies (one published in Health Affairs using the 2022 Nursing Sample data and one published by Press Ganey using data from their NDNQI database) provide some additional insight into … [Read more...]
Gritty Facts and Gritty Faith
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I heard Brené Brown on her The Curiosity Shop podcast talk about the importance of team members being willing to bring up gritty facts while also having the gritty faith that problems can be solved. Nurse leaders often bring this up in leadership development sessions. Every nurse manager has had the experience of walking into the … [Read more...]
Narrative Nursing – The New Nursing Competency
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN If you walk down a hospital unit today, you’ll likely see nurses staring into screens, clicking through exhaustive, fragmented electronic health record (EHR) flowsheets. But the healthcare landscape is shifting rapidly, and soon nurse charting will look very different from what it does today. Ambient nursing AI is … [Read more...]
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