The Development of a Shared Governance Model In the Ambulatory Setting. From: Nursing Economics | Date: May 1, 1999| Author: Smolensky, Lauren A.; Zuzak, Cynthia; Adams, Judith; Mackaly, Linda | COPYRIGHT 1999 Jannetti Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

FIRST INTRODUCED in the United States in the late 1970s, shared governance is a system of management that creates an environment of empowerment for staff nurses (Geoghegan & Farrington, 1995). Totten and Scott (1993) suggest that the concept of shared governance was "developed in response to an identified need for staff nurses to have more control over their institutional working environment" (p. 28). Another concept of the shared governance theory, as defined by Porter-O'Grady (19...

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