SHARED GOVERNANCE: IMPLEMENTING IN THE WORKPLACE

Course overview

Shared governance is a professional practice model that promotes nursing empowerment and shared decision making by making staff nurses, rather than managers, responsible for decisions that impact policies, procedures, and processes at the level of the patient care unit. This continuing education module is designed to give the reader/learner an increased understanding of implementing shared governance in the workplace, including reasons for implementing shared governance in the workplace, characteristics of the various models of shared governance, and strategies for implementation. Readers may explore any or all of the topics. One contact hour of continuing education credit is available for those who successfully complete the post-test and evaluation form.