We have shuffled some roles around with the folks our advisory board.  C.J. Newton, formerly the Director of Marketing for the Forum for Shared Governance has become our Director of Accreditation. She can be contacted here. 

Meanwhile, Dr Sarah Brzozowski, who was formerly the Direction of Accreditation, is now our Director of Policy & Strategic Planning. We have big plans in store for you but first, there is work to be done to earn our accreditation, which is still FREE! If you want to know more about Sarah, you can read about her here. 

Do you have real shared professional governance? Want to really find out with a reliable, valid instrument with a 30-year track record of evidence? Click the photo to find out how:

Want fit and rigorous, vigorous councils in your shared professional governance program? Try an assessment or evaluation with our survey tool, Council Health. You can check it out in the literature as well:

• Council Health to Transform Shared Governance Processes and Practice (2020)
• Use of the Council Health Survey to Assess Shared Governance in a Pediatric Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
• The Role of Participation in and Effectiveness of Shared Governance Councils in the Nurses’ Perception of a Professional Practice Work Environment (2022)
• The ELEVATE Study: Evaluating the Impact of Educational Professional Governance Workshop on Nurses’ Perceptions of Shared Decision-Making (2023)

Like to see the message about shared governance that can be produced by a smart nurse, a guitar, and AI? Listen to Bill Perry, the IT nurse who has coached Bob Hess in html and all things web-directed from the beginning of the Forum for Shared Governance. Here’s Bill’s Talking Shared Governance.

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Have something to disseminate? Send your poster to info@sharedgovernance.org & give us just one week from submission to review to online posting! A new addition to our peer-reviewed Poster Section: University of Maryland School of Nursing. Implementation of a Toolkit to Improve Engagement in Nursing Professional Governance, 2023. (Kelly Alilio, BSN, RN, DNP Candidate; Malissa da Graca, DNP, FNP-C)

University of Chicago Medical Center (Chicago, IL) and CHI St Vincents Hot Spring (Hot Springs, AR) just received formal accreditation in shared governance by the Forum for Shared Governance. Hard enough to qualify for accreditation in the first place, but to demonstrate the evidence a second time is worthy of loud applause. Nevertheless, Conway Regional Medical Center (Conway, AR) and Nemours Children’s Health, Delaware Valle (Wilmington, DE)  obtained reaccredited in shared governance by the Forum. Does your organization have what it takes to meet our criteria? Read about Hackensack Meridian Health’s journey, the first system to be accredited by the Forum,  Measuring shared governance: One healthcare system’s experience. And amazingly, our accreditation is FREE!

Do you know how to implement shared governance in two years flat?! Well, we do!!! Shared Governance is an organizational innovation that gives healthcare professionals control over their practice and extends their influence into administrative areas previously controlled only by managers. Governance models will be evidence-based, because we’re doing the research. Send us questions about shared governance or read an overview.Here’s an overview of shared governance. Here’s open access to one of Nurse Leader‘s most cited articles since 2018, Drs Hess, Weaver & Speroni’s “Shared Governance During a Pandemic.” And in Nurse Leader, nurses at Arkansas Children’s Hospital report the “Use of the [our] Council Health Survey to Assess Shared Governance in a Pediatric Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

Contrary to some recent claims, Professional Governance is NOT a new concept.

Disseminate! The Forum is now offering a mechanism for nurses to disseminate professional governance-related research studies to internal and external audiences and fulfill credentialing agencies’ requirements at the same time, through our peer-reviewed Poster Section. Contact the Forum for Shared Governance.

We welcome submissions for our growing library of Best Practices, derived from shared governance council work and accessible to Members Only. Contact the Forum for Shared Governance for your complimentary membership.

 If you missed our webinar, Innovations in Shared Professional Governance: Competencies and Measurements, by Drs Bob Hess & Diana Swihart, you can hear it here.

Have you figured out how to include your night shift into shared governance? Dr Sue Weaver, a nurse scientist, has. Read her advice here from Hackensack Meridian Health, the first healthcare system to be accredited in shared governance by the Forum for Shared Governance, and a response from Dr Barb Haag-Heitman, noted shared governance consultant and board member for the Forum. How about making shared governance work in a union environment? Dr Edna Cadmus has made her experience available to you right here. Advice on issues are archived in our Advice from the Forum section, along with our best practices, but they are restricted to Members Only. To become a member for free, simply send an email to info@sharedgovernance.org.

Want to set your staff on fire about shared governance? Why not have both Dr Bob Hess and Dr Diana Swihart, the world’s current leading authorities on governance innovations, help staff and managers better understand shared governance by taking their online CE course, free to those who become Forum Members, which is also free! Drop us a note.

Want to know what we really think about participation in shared governance? Read the blog on Nurse.com, Shared Governance Really Thrives When Nurses Step Up and Participate. 

Did you know that the Index of Professional Nursing Governance and the Index of Professional Governance , the only reliable, validated instruments for measuring shared governance, are now available in shortened forms? They are available in Arabic, Chinese, Korean, French, German, Portuguese, English (American and UK versions), Finnish, Thai, and Turkish. Go to the INPG/IPG Guidelines begin to document your shared governance journey for Magnet and Pathways designations. You can evaluate how well your councils function as well with our new survey instrument, Council Health. Any of these instruments are free to researchers and students.

Did you know that more than 100 citations and abstracts are available in our shared governance articles database now?

Have information relevant to shared governance and the empowerment of healthcare professionals you’d like to have posted on our website? Let us know. The Forum is constantly revising its list of SG Hospitals Online. Send a request to determine your organization’s eligibility for this prestigious, but free listing.

Shared Governance is an organizational innovation that gives healthcare professionals control over their practice and extends their influence into administrative areas previously controlled only by managers. Governance models will be evidence-based, because we’re doing the research. Send us questions about shared governance or read an overview.

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