What is it about?
When nurses join committees to assist in shared governance they may be new to the strategies needed for collaboration. This article discusses how reflection, critique and collaborative thinking skills can help them better define and display their contributions.
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Why is it important?
Shared governance is essential to continually improving patient care and to fostering professional practice models. Nurses have a wide array of clinical skills but may need help in defining and demonstrating their collaborative skills in governance situations. This article will help them to reflect on how much they have to offer.
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I believe shared governance is truly a scholarly process and that nurses as thoughtful and flexible individuals lead and succeed in shared governance.
Patricia Donohue-Porter
Adelphi University
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This page is a summary of: Creating a Culture of Shared Governance Begins With Developing the Nurse as Scholar, Creative Nursing, January 2012, Springer Publishing Company,
DOI: 10.1891/1078-4535.18.4.160.
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