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  • Genre:MEDICAL
  • SubGenre:Nursing / Management & Leadership
  • Language:English
  • Pages:248
  • Paperback ISBN:9798350921090

Shared Professional Governance

A Practical Approach to Transforming Interprofessional Healthcare

by Diana Swihart and Robert Hess,

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Overview
The purpose of Shared Professional Governance is to provide leaders, educators, and healthcare providers with many of the essential tools and ideas for practical approaches for designing--or redesigning--an effective and efficient interprofessional and multidisciplinary shared governance process model. They will facilitate your ability to embrace the evolving changes needed to mature your shared governance Infrastructure towards sustainment. In this book you will find a compilation of information and tools to help you develop your own models and processes.
Description
Shared governance structures, with all their intrinsic complexities, responsibilities, and accountabilities, must be carefully designed and Implemented to be sustained. This book takes some of the guesswork out of the various structures and processes behind shared governance and provides strategies, case examples, and best practices to make the daily operations of shared governance meaningful, successful, and sustainable. It is designed to provide a broad base on which to build planning and implementation of a successful shared governance infrastructure. To do that, you need guides, tips, and tools. The purpose of the fifth edition of Shared Professional Governance is to provide leaders, educators, and healthcare providers with many of the essential tools and ideas for practical approaches for designing--or redesigning--an effective and efficient interprofessional and multidisciplinary shared governance process model. They will facilitate your ability to embrace the evolving changes needed to mature your shared governance Infrastructure towards sustainment. In this book you will find a compilation of information and tools to help you develop your own models and processes. Quality, continual improvement, and excellence are embedded in healthcare practices across disciplines and services as the demand for value, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency grow and expand, directed at achieving outcomes that measure and increase the value of processes, i.e., shared professional governance. Therefore, this book also explores the relationship between shared governance and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) and Pathway to Excellence®. A case example provides insight into how Lean Six Sigma demonstrates how quality is folded into shared governance and results in process improvements at points of care. You will also find guides for identifying models and tools for designing and building a structure to support shared governance. Additional tools help you create or recreate your structures from the unit or practice level upwards and mature your processes across disciplines and service lines. If there is a form you need, we have it. You can explore ways to engage internal and external stakeholders, assess your processes and outcomes, build competencies, and evaluate your infrastructure within six domains of measurement. This book helps you as you grow and develop your knowledge, skills, and abilities through research, evidence-based practice, and shared decisional processes. These tools can support your work as you participate in a partnership with your leadership, educators, interprofessional team members, and multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure safe, competent practice within your organization and communities of service and c
About the author

Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, APN CS, NPD-BC, CPP Dr. Swihart is currently a Clinical Lead for National Specialty Programs with the National Center for Patient Safety, VHA. An author, speaker, researcher, educator, mentor, and consultant, she holds graduate degrees in nursing and leadership and doctorates in theology, ministry, and ancient Near Eastern studies (archaeology). Dr. Swihart is a Certified Preceptor Professional (CPP) and the CEO & Managing Partner for the American Academy for Preceptor Advancement and co-authored Building Your Professional Portfolio: Essential Tools for Healthcare Providers. Inducted into the American Academy of Nursing as a Fellow (FAAN, 2015), her work in establishing Preceptor Specialty Practice and professional preceptor certification was recognized nationally and internationally. She also co-authored Shared Governance: A Practical Approach to Transforming Interprofessional Healthcare with Dr. Robert Hess, is a consulting partner, and serves on the Forum for Shared Governance Advisory Board. Dr. Swihart has enjoyed many roles in her professional career, practicing in widely diverse academic, clinical, and nonclinical settings, including having served on numerous advisory boards (i.e., Journal of Nursing Regulation) and completed multiple terms as an American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet® Appraiser and as an ANCC Accreditation Commissioner.


Dr Robert G Hess Jr, PhD, RN, FAAN is the Founder, CEO, and webmaster for www.sharedgovernance.org and www.careerwhisperer.org.

Robert Hess is an educator, editor, author, and consultant. His formal education includes a degree in comparative religion from Temple University, a nursing diploma from Frankford Hospital in Philadelphia, a master's degree in nursing administration from Seton Hall University, and a doctorate in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, where he studied organizational theory at the Wharton School. His research involves the development of the only current valid and reliable instruments that measure governance by professionals and the effectiveness of shared governance councils in healthcare organizations. Both nationally and internationally, researchers, consultants, and administrators have used these instruments to assess, implement, and evaluate shared governance programs and to pursue Magnet status in several hundred hospitals and healthcare systems. These instruments have been translated into about 12 languages. In 2005, he created the Forum for Shared Governance and its website to meet the needs of staff nurses, administrators, and researchers who are involved in the implementation and evaluation of shared governance models.

An award-winning author, Dr. Hess has written about 200 articles for numerous journals and two books. As an editor, he has been personally responsible for coaching more than 500 healthcare professionals to publish their first articles. Dr. Hess has been a distinguished lecturer and writer for Sigma Theta Tau, International, nursing's honor society, and he is a past recipient of several awards from Seton Hall University, the New Jersey State Nurses Association, and the prestigious NJ Governor's Merit for Excellence Award as educator of the year. In November, 2008, he was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing for his work in shared governance.

Dr. Hess has served on numerous boards and committees. He was a trustee on the Foundation of the National Student Nurses Association for eight years; every year for 16 years he has spoken at NSNA's national convention to a full-house of students about the nursing job market and career fitness. He is the past chair and advisor to the Development Committee (personal fundraising) for the American Academy of Nursing, and a past director on the national board for the American Association for Men in Nursing.

As a speaker and researcher, Dr. Hess has been described as unflappable, focused, outspoken, and even “refreshing.” He is the present Founder and blogger for CareerWhisperer.org and past career blogger for Nurse.com.

Dr. Hess retired at the end of 2018 from his day job as executive vice president, chief clinical executive, for Relias (formerly Nursing Spectrum/Nurseweek, Gannett Education, OnCourse Learning), which publishes Nurse.com and ContinuingEducation.com. He led the largest CE providership in nursing and the first-ever winner of the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Accreditation Premier Program Award, 2007, which was awarded twice again, spanning 2009-2015. Capping his work as a commissioner and appraiser, he was the vice chair of ANCC's Commission on Accreditation.

Dr. Hess and his team were responsible for the development of continuing education for nurses, physicians, pharmacists and 21 other healthcare disciplines through podcasts, webinars, live seminars, career fairs and through the most trafficked websites in nursing, including www.nurse.com, visited frequently by healthcare professionals from such far-flung places as Madrid, Athens, Tokyo, Sydney, and Samoa. His provider units awarded millions of contact hours every year. In addition to www.continuingeducation.com, CE was provided through www.todayinpt.com and www.todayinot.com.

Dr. Hess's current focus is interprofessional shared governance and related professional, organizational, and patient outcomes. He also the flotilla staff officer for human resources and a vessel examiner for the US Coast Guard Auxiliary in Stuart, FL. Dr. Hess is still a very active researcher and prolific author in shared governance.