Emerging Nurse Leader

A leadership development blog

A New Free Research Tool to Assess Transition into a Nurse Leader Role

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Nurse leaders are always looking for ways to improve the development and transition of their new leaders. A good place to start is by asking your current leaders about their own leadership transitions. The blog below was written by Kathy Casey, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, FAAN  - a co-author of the new Casey-Fink Nurse Leader Role Transition Survey ©2025 . Many of you may be familiar … [Read more...]

A Playbook for Recruiting and Retaining Gen Z Nurses

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nurse leaders know that the nursing workforce is rapidly shifting. A new generation of nurses - Generation Z- is driving change in almost every healthcare setting. Tim Elmore’s new book, The Future Begins with Z, points out that this new generation is fundamentally disrupting how we think about the workplace. The old recruitment and … [Read more...]

When Your Leadership Team Demonstrates Toxic Behaviors

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By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN There are very few experienced leaders who successfully navigate their careers without turning around a toxic team culture. Sometimes that culture is inherited, and other times it happens from within over time. And in some situations, it may even involve your own leadership team. Several years ago, a colleague and I did leadership … [Read more...]

KONL Workshop – Staying Power is Open to All Nurse Leaders

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Nurse Leaders have cited in several recent national studies that they anticipate the recruitment and retention of nursing staff to be their top challenge in 2026. Even health systems with strong recruitment and retention metrics realize that retaining their Generation Z workforce will be much more challenging. The second-year turnover in this age group now exceeds 50%. The loss … [Read more...]