princessp

Nursing voted for the people we wanted on the committees, then admin. chose the chair and co-chair. These got together and chose the people we wanted in the individual groups. We tried to choose a representative group to cover all the units. That's as far as we've gotten. We have another mtg next week where we are supposed to come up with objectives that support the hospital mission statement (guess I'll need to look that up:o) I guess I'm just lost about what happens after that.

so how did you guys start? what types of things have you tried? what worked and what didn't?

This is being mandated by admin. so I guess they will support it. I am a bedside nurse so I absolutely understand the mistrust of anything new admin. wants to try and I will say this is the 3rd attempt in my 29yrs at this hospital, to implement sg. I'm trying to be more positive and would be very happy if we could make this work. I've always had a problem with people who don't do my job telling me how to do my job. That being said, any ideas on how to start? Admin has already chosen to have 3 committees to represent quality, education, and professional practice with suggestions for each about what we cover. I just don't understand how you go from the ideas to actually doing it so anyone who can help, I would be most appreciative. Thanks for the comments.

It's the use of staff nurses via committee to make decisions on how nurses do their jobs in your facility. Supposedly, the committees (education, professional practice, quality) handle problems proposed by the bedside nurse. At least that's how I think it works. I need more info.

My hospital is new to shared governance and I'm on a committee. We have no idea how to actually start. We've chosen teams with different things we will be responsible for but I want to know if anyone has done this in their facility and has suggestions on the actual nuts and bolts of starting. Thanks in advance.