Shared Governance Symposium
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Shared Governance Symposium
How to Build a Staff-Driven Model of Decision and Action
Seminar On-demand
The next best thing to attending the live seminar!
Product Description:
This electronic, on-demand recording of the HCPro seminar Shared Governance Symposium—presented on September 20, 2009—includes the highlights of the live program in a convenient, cost-effective format.
Order your MP3 recording of this program and listen to our experts, including Tim Porter-O’Grady, DM, EdD, APRN, FAAN, and Kim S. Hitchings, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, reveal the five nonnegotiable principles to establish or refine a model of shared governance to improve patient care in your organization.
This program helps you to:
- Build a decision-making model
- Empower staff nurses
- Move one step closer to designation status
Your recording includes the following sessions:
Proven principles of sustainable shared governance
- The five time-tested foundations for shared governance
- It’s about making decisions
- It’s staff-driven
- There must be accountability
- Locus of control
- Managers are critical to success
Yes, you can: Translating principles into practice
- The reality of Lehigh Valley Health
- Network (LVHN) shared governance model
- How to overcome challenges to decision-making
- Examples of unit council models that support the organization wide shared governance model: A staff nurse perspective
- How LVHN translated the five principles into practice
- How shared governance supports an ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® culture of nursing excellence
Work group activity: Translation and application in your practice setting
- Share your individual questions and concerns about applying shared governance to your unique practice environment
- Learn methods to overcome barriers to shared decision making at your organization
- Get strategies to implement shared decision-making
- Discover creative ways to engage nurse managers and staff members
Make the commitment: Identify next steps to build a decision-making model
- Work group activity: Identify next steps to take back to your organization
- Promote accountability for practice
- Inspire managers and staff members to commit to shared decision-making
- Identify resources to implement shared governance
- Interactive discussion: Refining your action plan for implementation
- Take list of action steps and customize them to work for your organization
Who Should Listen?
- Senior nurse executives
- Directors of nursing
- Nurse managers
- Staff nurses
- ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® project directors
- Nurse educators
- Shared governance council chairs and members
About the faculty:
Tim Porter-O’Grady, DM, EdD, APRN, FAAN, is senior partner at Tim Porter-O’Grady Associates, Inc., an international healthcare consulting firm in Atlanta specializing in health futures, organizational innovation, conflict, and change, as well as health service delivery models. He has been involved in healthcare for 37 years and has held roles from staff nurse to senior executive in a variety of healthcare settings. He is noted for his work on shared governance models, clinical leadership, conflict, and health futures.
Kim S. Hitchings, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, is the manager of the Center for Professional Excellence, Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), in Allentown, PA. She works closely with the senior vice president, administrators, and other managers in clinical services in a staff-assistive role to coordinate specific programs and to assist with designated special projects. She also serves as director for the network’s Friends of Nursing Program, a philanthropic foundation established for the recognition and promotion of nursing. For 10 years, she coordinated all clinical services quality assurance and improvement activities and currently serves as her hospital’s project director for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*. She speaks at the local and national levels about the evolution of LVHN’s shared decision-making professional practice model, which was first established more than 20 years ago.
Courtney Vose, MSN, RN, CRNP, CEN, is an administrator in Patient Care Services at Lehigh Valley Health Network. Prior to this position, she was the director of the emergency department at the Cedar Crest Campus of Lehigh Valley Hospital. During Courtney’s tenure as director of the emergency department, the emergency department team was the recipient of numerous internal organizational awards and in 2005 was named the ‘Best Nursing Team’ by Advance for Nurses magazine. In 2006, Courtney was the recipient of the prestigious Pennsylvania Nightingale Award in the Nursing Administration category. Her most recent, completed research was a cross-sectional, pre-post quasi-experimental study of an emergency department waiting room, which was recently published in Nursing Research.
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