Question

Discuss how Shared Governance in nursing has changed your practice. If it has not changed your practice, discuss ways in which you would like to see this occur in your practice setting and why.

Answer 1

Nurses assume an active role in he management of the patient care services.Shared governance is dependent on effective collaboration, communication, and teamwork. Shared governance is a management model, it emphasizes the need for nurses to share accountability and responsibility.

Yes, ofcourse it has changed the nursing practice as it helps the nurse to take accountability and responsibilities .It helps to spread departmental and organizational decision making over a large number of staff.Nurses have the authority to make right decisions regarding nursing practice, quality of patient care, education, nursing peer issues, and issues in the work environment.

Shared governance requires slow, gradual development, role-modeling, and mentoring by nurse leaders, and continual coaching, nurturing, and education for nursing staff and management.

Shared governance models empower nurses to provide quality care. The implementation of shared governance systems is not necessarily costly and does not always require considerable time and effort. The implementation has been accomplished with very little resources.