Shared Governance

Shared Governance and Critical Thinking

Answer the following questions about shared governance

What are your own characteristics of critical thinking

Give an example where nurse manager used critical thinking

Describe a situation where you observed in the nurse manager

What were the outcomes

Make your judgment as how the situation should have resolved

Background

According to Marquis and Huston (2003 ) shared governance is one of the most innovative and idealistic organizational structures , which was developed in the middle of the 1980s (p .172 . It is hailed as an alternative

to the conventional bureaucracy as it is characterized by a flat organizational structure that entails decentralization and empowerment of people within the decision-making system , thereby providing nurses with more control over their professional practice (Marquis and Huston , 2003 , pp . 172-173 . Nevertheless , according to the aforesaid authors , nurse-managers still struggle in their role changes brought about by hesitance and difficulty in accepting such changes . In this regard , nurse-managers must be open-minded , creative , and willing to commit to his or her work and organization in to counteract the barriers to shared governance . Such elements direct us to the so-called critical thinking ability that each nurse-manager should be adept of (Zori and Morrison , 2009

Zori and Morrison (2009 ) purported that critical thinking has been considered as an integral , significant part of the decision making process in nursing during the most recent era . Moreover , critical thinking provides for a distinct approach in looking at the perspectives in the practice of nursing (Brunt , 2005 . With...