Professional Governance for Nursing: Unlocking Accountability, Engagement, and Excellence

As healthcare professionals, nurses are accountable for improving the health of patients and populations alike. However, sustaining behavioral change is impossible without structural change that enables it. To address this, a common professional framework is essential in all practice settings to formalize the voice of nurses’ ownership and accountability for practice decision-making related to clinical problems and solutions, forming practice policy, and pursuing solutions affecting health outcomes and advancing the quality of healthcare.

A Framework for Nursing Excellence

Published in partnership with the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), Professional Governance for Nursing: The Framework for Accountability, Engagement, and Excellence expertly covers concepts, roles, application, and demonstration of professional governance that facilitates the nurse’s role in advancing the impact and value of nursing care across all health settings. This nursing book informs and deepens understanding of the centrality of nursing professional governance in addressing contemporary issues affecting nursing practice.

The editors and contributors, renowned nurse leaders, utilize their extensive scholarship and experience to provide examples of professional behaviors that exemplify the importance and impact of nursing professional governance across all clinical settings and roles. This unique text also equips organizations with professional governance strategies and tools to achieve exemplary, ongoing practice transformation, with tactics to support innovation and programs of excellence.

Effective Management and Clinical Leadership Behavior

With a focus on effective management and clinical leadership behavior, Professional Governance for Nursing: The Framework for Accountability, Engagement, and Excellence provides the necessary tools for nurse leaders to create an environment in which nurses can practice with expertise, accountability, and collaboration to advance care and facilitate the continuing transformation of healthcare.

In today’s high-stakes healthcare environment, the path forward for nursing must be to realize full power to lead and improve services. Professional Governance for Nursing: The Framework for Accountability, Engagement, and Excellence is an indispensable resource for nurse leaders, educators, and practitioners seeking to advance the impact and value of nursing care.

Book Details:
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication Date: February 16, 2024
Language: English
Pages: 450
ISBN-10: 1284286479
ISBN-13: 978-1284286472