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Multidisciplinary shared governance: the next step

T Porter-O'Grady

Seminars for Nurse Managers

|March 1, 1996

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New organizational models require different management approaches. Whole-systems shared governance empowers healthcare systems by applying principles of partnership and accountability across the entire organization.

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Area of Science:

Healthcare Management
Organizational Development
Nursing Leadership

Background:

Traditional industrial organizational designs are insufficient for modern workplaces.
Healthcare organizations require new structures that empower workers and leverage their knowledge.
Shared governance has emerged as a successful model for empowering nursing organizations.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and define whole-systems shared governance as an advanced approach to healthcare organizational development.
To extend the principles of shared governance beyond nursing to the entire healthcare system.
To explore how whole-systems shared governance can foster partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership.

Main Methods:

Conceptual framework development for whole-systems shared governance.

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Analysis of existing shared governance models and their limitations.

Application of shared governance principles to integrated healthcare systems.

Main Results:

Whole-systems shared governance offers a scalable model for organizational transformation.
Implementation requires a commitment to core principles across all organizational levels.
Empowerment and engagement are enhanced when governance extends throughout the entire system.

Conclusions:

Whole-systems shared governance represents the next evolutionary stage for professional healthcare organizations.
This approach is essential for managing increasingly integrated and complex healthcare systems.
Adopting whole-systems shared governance fosters a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility.