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Want to better understand shared governance and how to implement a successful program? Take an online CE course with an by Robert Hess and Diana Swihart, available in audio. Read Wendy Silverstein's report about shared governance and Magnet compliance at Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ. Check out the the poster from AONE's Boston conference about Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center's interdisciplinary shared governance, presented by Forum advisory board member, Susan Allen, and Carol Tierney and Dawn Nebrig. Find out how Mercy Medical Center, Rockville Centre, NY, incorporated shared governance to achieve Pathway to Excellence designation with the American Nurses Credentialing Center. It's time. More nurses are sitting at the table in the hospital board room as members. Little data connects the impact of shared governance on nursing and patient outcomes. Research by Jennifer Rheingans, RN, PhD, AHN-BC, CPON comes the closest yet. Check out her citation in our listing of Reported Research. Click below to view new video of advisory board members, Barb Haag-Heitman and Vicki George, discussing peer review and shared governance. Buy their book, Peer Review in Nursing: Principles for Successful Practice. Implement shared governance with the help of the recently released second edition of advisory board member, Diana Swihart's book, Shared Governance: A Practical Approach to Transform Professional Nursing Practice, which includes a special chapter, Measure Your Process and Outcomes at the Point of Care, By Robert Hess. The Forum is constantly revising its list of SG Hospitals Online. Kennedy Health System, Stratford, NJ; Stanford Hospitals & Clinics, Stanford, CA; and St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO were just added. Send a request to determine your organization's eligibility for this prestigious, but free listing. The criteria is simple and straightforward. Want to find out if you have real shared governance? Join the 200 hospitals nationally and internationally that have surveyed their staff and managers with the Index of ProfessionalNursing Governance. Got journey? Your organization is either on or off the bus with this one. Read Bob Hess's 17-year retrospective on the IPNG and the generic IPG, Slicing and Dicing Shared Governance: In and Around the Numbers. Read what was published in last July's Journal of Nursing Administration from the 2010 National Survey of Registered Nurses about RNs reporting opportunities to participate in shared governance: 37% in Magnet hospitals, 32% in hospitals in process to become Magnet, and 16% in non-Magnet hospitals. Wondering about how to budget for and compensate officers in your shared governance organization? Read recommendations and experiences of the Forum's Advisory Board members at Advice From the Forum. Somebody telling you that shared decision-making, shared leadership, and shared governance are all the same? They're not. Read about the Confusion Among Consultants. Are some colleagues having difficulty joining the journey? Read what to do about Petulant Participants. Go to the following advisory board members' pages to hear video interviews about shared governance: Noreen Watson, duPont Hospital for Children; Gladys Mouro and Hera Tashjian, American University of Beirut Medical Center; Diana Swihart, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System; and Majeda Afeef, King Hussein Cancer Center. Shared Governance is an organizational innovation that gives healthcare professionals control over their practice and extends their influence into administrative areas previously controlled only by managers. Governance models will be evidence-based, because we're doing the research. Send us questions about shared governance or read an overview.
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