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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Nursing Management > Ready, Set, Magnet! Shared Governance: A Practical Approach to Reshaping Professional Nursing Practice     Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, CS, APRN, BC, Tim Porter-O'Grady, EdD, APRN, FAAN Softbound Book   Size: 8.5" x 11" book Includes 3 Nursing Contact Hours! ISBN 1578398568 978-1578398560 HCPro September 2006 (click button below for the very best currently available price for this important resource) Earn 3 Nursing Contact Hours! "This is perhaps one of the clearest explications of the principles, design, and processes associated with a viable and successful shared governance model that exists in the literature today." — Tim Porter-O'Grady, EdD, APRN, FAAN, Senior Partner, Tim Porter-O'Grady Associates, Inc. Give your nurses the power to influence decisions that affect their practice. This one-of-a-kind guide identifies the essential elements of shared governance and provides practical strategies for leaders to design, implement, and assess shared governance process models in their facilities. Shared governance is necessary to cultivate a professional practice environment for nurses. Without it, organizations lack an innovative, effective way to minimize nurse turnover, improve clinical decision-making, and support the autonomous environment necessary to meet the expectations of the ANCC's Magnet Recognition Program. This is an easy-to-read guide that will make the daily operations of shared governance meaningful and successful at your facility. Strategies, case studies, tips, and best practices are found in these topic area: The concept behind shared governance Design a structure to support shared governance Implementing shared governance The roles of the stakeholders Nursing's role in organization-wide shared governance Assess your process Case studies: A snapshot of shared governance on large and small scales The relationship between shared governance and the Magnet Recognition Program Tips for success Shared Governance: A Practical Approach to Reshaping Professional Nursing Practice is a valuable, must-have resource for: senior nurse executives organizational leaders nursing directors nurse managers nurse educators staff nurses Magnet coordinators and directors Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, CS, APRN,BC is a clinical nurse specialist in nursing education at the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System in Bay Pines, FL. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for Advance for Nurses, Florida edition, and has published and spoken on a number of topics relating to nursing, shared governance, competency assessment, education, and staff development. She has served as an ANCC Magnet appraiser and is currently the treasurer for the National Nursing Staff Development Organization.   Earn 3 Nursing Contact Hours! HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation. Learning objectives for the CEUs ensure that participants will be able to: Define the four primary principles of shared governance: partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership Compare two professional nursing practice models Describe the role of relational partnerships in shared governance Describe four elements that are essential to the successful implementation of shared governance in the earliest stages of process development Discuss the basic guidelines for forming the governance bodies in shared governance Compare and contrast four structural process models of shared governance Identify four strategic changes related to the implementation of shared governance Outline the three brain barriers to viable change in healthy organizations and the keys to overcome them Describe the roles and responsibilities of a design team for implementation of shared governance Discuss the purpose of bylaws and articles and how they are established when formalizing the shared governance structure Discuss the roles of the following four stakeholders in shared governance: leadership, union representatives, community members, and patients Discuss nursing's role in organization wide shared governance related to the process structure or model, other disciplines and departments, and corporate and organizational integration Describe how shared governance can be an integrating structure in healthcare organizations under nursing's leadership Discuss the research project that looked at shared governance in a government agency using the Index of Professional Nursing Governance (IPNG) Describe the six dimensions measured by the IPNG Compare the attributes of a shared governance process model in organizations of different sizes and settings Identify the two central elements of the Magnet Recognition Program and the shared governance process List the eight essentials of "magnetism" and how they compare to the shared governance process model Describe at least ten tips for success when implementing shared governance Earn 3 Nursing Contact Hours! 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