Question

What is shared governance? Research your facility's shared governance. If your facility has not instituted shared governance, research to find a facility that does. What are the elements of its shared governance? How do you see yourself as a professional nurse participating in shared governance? please give reference link to the page/facility

Answer 1

Shared governance is defined as partnership oriented organizations where the decision making is unanimous of all the stakeholders. In simple worlds to be cleared shared governance is public sector company who's whole ownership is not belongs to a single person but it is based on partnership of multiple organizations or person's.
Shared governance is based upon decentralized decision making power of leading partners of organization considering in account their expertise on to that subject. It can be considered as unbiased decision making.
Key elements of shared governance:
1. Collabrative nature : collaborative design of organization is key element of shared governance.
2. Skill building and education : as shared governance involves indetailed discussions and hypothesis consideration one can build the finest skills of healthcare practice and decision making of clinical hypothesis. It also builts enough confidence in people's involved to educate them selves with respect to professional and personal growth.
3. New ideas and opportunities : This is flawless journey of learning new things all the time and evolving new possibilities from collective decisions.
4. Healthy work environment: All the staff belonging to such organizations are involved in decision making practices by regular session's which helps to maintain healthy environment.
5. Clinically relevant decisions: all the steps taken under shared governance are mostly with proper background studies which leads to results of decisions in most relevant and necessary clinical works.

I my self as a professional healthcare practitioner love to work with such organisation where shared governance is mode of governance as it helps me lot towards my professional and personal growth along with exposure to various operations apart from the nursing such as administration's decision making, management skills , communications skills, presenting skills, etc.