Shared Governance: A New Age

Abstract

This narrative provides how an organization transformed their model of shared governance to enhance communication, meaningful feedback, innovation, and idea generation with clinical nursing. The organization completed an analysis of the current state of shared governance and provided recommendations for change, leading to enhanced nurse engagement. Nurse engagement has consistently become more difficult to achieve with multigenerational barriers, remote technology, and the difficult workload of clinical nurses. The clinical nurse’s voice needs amplified. Although there are still opportunities to evolve and transform, utilizing different approaches of shared governance can enhance nurse engagement, even virtually.