Committee Meeting: Roles, Functioning, and Shared Governance in Healthcare Organizations

Running head: COMMITTEE MEETING
COMMITTEE MEETING
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1COMMITTEE MEETING
Introduction
Healthcare organizations must seek to improve their functioning and practices through
identification of areas for potential improvement and adhering towards modification of existing
procedures to ensure deliverance of quality healthcare (Choolijan et al., 2016). The following
paper will focus upon the details of a committee meeting conducted at a healthcare
organization, the observed roles and functioning of each member of the committee and the
process of shared governance undertaken in the organizational decision making process.
Discussion
Committee Meeting and Setting
The meeting was conducted in a hospital setting – a healthcare organization catering to
various patients with the deliverance of multifaceted treatment procedures. The meeting so
conducted was based on the discussion concerning maintenance of adequate nursing and patient
ratios. For the deliverance of quality healthcare with equitable treatment and resources for all
patients, maintenance of an adequate nurse to patient ratio is of utmost importance in a
healthcare organization. A high patient population and flow as compared to a comparatively
minor nursing workforce will result in increased workload and inadequate distribution of burden
of work across the clinical team (Falk & Wallin, 2016). Increased workloads as a resultant of
inadequate nurse to patient ratio will result in increased stress and burnout among nurses and
hindrance to the deliverance of quality nursing care leading to increased nursing errors, increased
patient dissatisfaction, negative feedback and high patient turnover leading to organizational
losses (Werli-Alvarenga et al., 2017). For this reason, a meeting was conducted by the hospital