Shared Governance: Exploring its Impact on Nursing Practice

This report delves into the concept of shared governance within the nursing profession, exploring its core principles, benefits, and practical applications. The assignment examines how shared governance fosters a supportive work environment, empowering nurses and promoting autonomy in practice. It highlights the importance of equality, empowerment, accountability, and partnership in achieving high-quality nursing care. Furthermore, the report discusses the development of transformational leadership, structural empowerment, and the generation of new knowledge and innovations facilitated by shared governance. The analysis focuses on improving the practice setting and enhancing relationships among peers, hospital leadership, families, and the community. The assignment also addresses the challenges and the gradual process of educating managers about the concepts of shared governance.

WHAT IS SHARED
GOVERNANCE:
The organizations and the regarding
the acceptable of the factors of shared
governance involves the distribution and
involvement of the work culture as well
as have a certain type of supportive
environment, which helps in the
empowering of the nurses and encourages
different types of feelings that arrive
autonomously and infers upon the control
and the development of practice setting.
Therefor this type of organizational
culture helps in bringing organizational
culture as well as increases various
aspects like- having respect in the
organization, improving certain problem
solving skills that impact on the quality of
the care.
FUNCTIONS:
1.High Quality Nursing care are
delivered.
2.Execution of the nursing care and
its implementation of different
professional and competent manner.
3.Defines and develops a holistic
approach towards caring.
4.Helps in bringing in enhancement
of the practice and develops relation
towards- peers, hospital leadership,
families and different community
members in various competent
manner.
IMPORTANT FACTORS:
 Equality: Focuses on the development of
shared and equal focus on every patients
and services.
 Empowerment: developing of decision
making skills for nursing practice.
 Accountability: Growth of responsibility
towards willingness and investment in
certain ethical practices.
 Partnership: growth and enhancement of
teamwork.
SHARED GOVERNANCE
BENEFITS:
 Development of transformational
leadership.
 Growth of empowerment on
Structural basis.
 Developing ideas regarding new
knowledge, innovations and
improvements.
 Providing a structure and develop
certain processes regarding the
partnerships, equity, accountability
and authority.
 The analysis of the products in the
various kinds of the ideas and
notions needs to be made for the
better acceptance and application
of the concepts.
 Challenging and teaching of the
managers in a gradual manner as
well as making them understand
regarding any type of problems or
contingencies can be made while
working on or having shared
governance in an organization.