Shared Governance

"This is perhaps one of the clearest explications of the principles, design, and processes associated with a viable and successful shared governance model that exists in the literature today." — Tim Porter-O'Grady, EdD, APRN, FAAN, Senior Partner, Tim Porter-O'Grady Associates, Inc.

Give your nurses the power to influence decisions that affect their practice with Shared Governance: A Practical Approach to Reshaping Professional Nursing Practice. This one-of-a-kind guide identifies the essential elements of shared governance and provides practical strategies for leaders to design, implement, and assess shared governance process models in their facilities.

WHY YOU NEED SHARED GOVERNANCE

Shared governance is necessary to cultivate a professional practice environment for nurses. Without it, organizations lack an innovative, effective way to minimize nurse turnover, improve clinical decision-making, and support the autonomous environment necessary to meet the expectations of the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*.

Endorsed by Tim Porter-O'Grady, EdD, APRN, FAAN, Shared Governance: A Practical Approach to Reshaping Professional Nursing Practice is an easy-to-read guide that will make the daily operations of shared governance meaningful and successful at your facility. Strategies, case studies, tips, and best practices—all here at your fingertips to take the guesswork out of shared governance!

TABLE OF CONTENTS :

Foreword by Tim Porter-O'Grady
1. Introduction: The concept behind shared governance
2. Design a structure to support shared governance
3. Implementing shared governance
4. The roles of the stakeholders
5. Nursing's role in organization-wide shared governance
6. Assess your process
7. Case studies: A snapshot of shared governance on large and small scales
8. The relationship between shared governance and the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*
9. Tips for success

WHO NEEDS THIS BOOK

Shared Governance: A Practical Approach to Reshaping Professional Nursing Practice is a valuable, must-have resource for:

• Senior nurse executives and other organizational leaders
• Nursing directors
• Nurse managers
• Nurse educators
• Staff nurses
• ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®* Recognition Program project directors

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Define the four primary principles of shared governance: partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership
• Compare two professional nursing practice models
• Describe the role of relational partnerships in shared governance
• Describe four elements that are essential to the successful implementation of shared governance in the earliest stages of process development
• Discuss the basic guidelines for forming the governance bodies in shared governance
• Compare and contrast four structural process models of shared governance
• Identify four strategic changes related to the implementation of shared governance
• Outline the three brain barriers to viable change in healthy organizations and the keys to overcome them
• Describe the roles and responsibilities of a design team for implementation of shared governance
• Discuss the purpose of bylaws and articles and how they are established when formalizing the shared governance structure
• Discuss the roles of the following four stakeholders in shared governance: leadership, union representatives, community members, and patients
• Discuss nursing's role in organization wide shared governance related to the process structure or model, other disciplines and departments, and corporate and organizational integration
• Describe how shared governance can be an integrating structure in healthcare organizations under nursing's leadership
• Discuss the research project that looked at shared governance in a government agency using the Index of Professional Nursing Governance (IPNG)
• Describe the six dimensions measured by the IPNG
• Compare the attributes of a shared governance process model in organizations of different sizes and settings
• Identify the two central elements of the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®* and the shared governance process
• List the eight essentials of the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®* and how they compare to the shared governance process model
• Describe at least ten tips for success when implementing shared governance

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This educational activity for 3 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, CS, APRN,BC,is a clinical nurse specialist in nursing education at the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System in Bay Pines, FL. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for Advance for Nurses, Florida edition, and has published and spoken on a number of topics relating to nursing, shared governance, competency assessment, education, and staff development. She has served as an ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® appraiser and is currently the treasurer for the National Nursing Staff Development Organization.

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HCPro Inc. has confirmed that none of the faculty/presenters or contributors have any relevant financial relationships to disclose related to the content of this educational activity.

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