Running head: SHARED GOVERNANCE
Shared Governance
Karina Sariol
Leadership and Vocation
Grand Canyon University
May 2nd 2020
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Shared Governance
In every health care facility, there are different committees that are formed in order to
help in management and running of different sectors in the facility. The main goal of formation
of different committees in a health care facility is to help the management in running the facility
through analyzing different situations and making proposals or decisions that will ensure that the
facility is running well. As per the requirements of this assignment, I attended a committee
meeting in our health care facility that is under the risk management department. This committee
was formed two years ago where its main purpose is to identify all the risks that might affect the
functioning of the health care facility and come up with strategies on how to mitigate the
identified risk factors. It was very difficult to be allowed into the meeting room and I had to
write different letters to the chair because there is a regulation in the facility that requires
members to maintain social distancing due to covid-19 pandemic and at all cost avoid gatherings
and meetings. Over the past one month the committee has been meeting online through zoom
technology but today as they were to brief the health care management team they therefore had a
meeting that I was allowed in (Kleib & Nagle, 2018).
The committee is made up of five members who come from different departments within
the facility. They are heads of departments in different departments and every member is given a
duty and responsibility within the committee to make sure that the running of the committee is
effective. The members are the chairperson, vice chairperson, secretary, treasurer and head of
communication within the committee. The interaction between members is participatory and
democratic where the chair is responsible of giving the time for the meeting as they all agreed
and through the guidance of the chair every member is given an opportunity to air their views.
Once every member presents their views on the issue at hand, voting is then done in order to pass
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the agreement. The rationale behind having an odd number is to ensure that whenever a decision
is to be made, voting will not have equal number of votes which might delay decision making
(Laursen, 2020.
Shared governance plays a very important role in making sure that all members in the
leadership team are allowed to give put their opinions about a certain issue at hand. This prevents
monopoly of ideas or dictatorship leadership as all members are given equal opportunities to
participate in a given issue at hand (Nelson, Donnellan, & Elwyn, 2016). From the observation
made from the meeting that lasted for three hours as members were strategizing on the different
interventions that the facility will put in place to ensure that patients are able to receive high
quality health care services during this time when covid-19 has paralyzed many operations in the
facility. This was to be implemented as the ensures that all the guidelines given by the World
Health Organization and the health ministries are fully adhered to in order to prevent the spread
of covid-19. The members were very friendly to an extent that in most cases I was also allowed
to give my opinion. I fully participated in the proceedings of the meeting but I did not participate
in voting as it could be against the set regulations. Steward and servant leadership skills was
evident during the meeting and I learnt a lot from the members who had deep knowledge in
leadership and different approaches and models that could help in the fight against covid-19 in
the facility and in the community (Boston-Fleischhauer, 2019).
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References
Boston-Fleischhauer, C. (2019). The power of advocacy. Journal for Nurses in Professional
Development, 35(6), 365-366. doi:10.1097/nnd.0000000000000594
Kleib, M., & Nagle, L. (2018). Psychometric properties of the Canadian nurse informatics
competency assessment scale. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 36(7), 359-365.
doi:10.1097/cin.0000000000000437
Laursen, P. F. (2020). Professionalism and the reflective approach to teaching. Changing
Research and Practice, 48-55. doi:10.1201/9781315043227-6
Nelson, W. A., Donnellan, J. J., & Elwyn, G. (2016). Implementing shared decision
making. Shared Decision Making in Health Care, 24-29.
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198723448.003.0005