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Ask the expert: Shared governance: Sharing success

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, May 13, 2008

This week, a reader asks if it’s important to share shared governance success with department managers. Read the response from our advisor Meryl Montgomery, RN, MSN, director of the learning center and ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® project director at Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, GA.

Q: Is it important to share shared governance success with department managers?

A: Shared governance has proved to be an effective infrastructure to promote communication, participation, and dissemination. For us at Medical Center of Central Georgia, it has required important changes in nurse manager communication and style, and is by no means a process of steady improvement.

Our unit councils continually present hard facts to our department managers showcasing how shared governance improves our organization. Some of the improvements in the past year coordinated/spearheaded by unit councils include:

• Increase in patient satisfaction, patient safety goals, restraint usage, and core measures
• Increase in breastfeeding rates to more than 80% of mothers with sick babies
• Reduction in ventilator-acquired pneumonia via use of ventilator bundles and peer review

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