Interdisciplinary Shared Governance: Integrating Practice, Transforming Health Care: Integrating Practice, Transforming Health Care / Edition 2

by Tim Porter-O'Grady

Overview

Interdisciplinary Shared Governance is the foundational reference for interdisciplinary shared governance model design and implementation. This text provides a seminal information base for translating nursing shared governance across disciplinary boundaries in a way that creates systems and practice linkages across the organization. The Second Edition has been updated with new concepts and further research that extends thinking with regard to shared governance, Magnet recognition, and interdisciplinary relationships. This revised edition is essential in supporting the broad-based application of shared governance as a decision-making model for integrating clinical practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763765415
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	01/12/2009
Edition description:	2E
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Tim Porter-O’Grady has been involved in health care for 45 years and has held roles from clinical provider to senior executive in a variety of American health care settings. Tim is currently senior partner of an international healthcare consulting firm in Atlanta GA. USA (Tim Porter-O’Grady Associates Inc.) since 1991 specializing in health futures, organizational innovation, conflict and change, as well as complex health service delivery models. He has advised leaders and policy-makers nationally on health reform during both the Clinton and Obama administrations. He is noted for his work on shared governance models, clinical leadership, conflict, innovation, complex systems, and health futures. Tim holds faculty-scholar positions at 2 major universities (Arizona State University and Ohio State University), and is a registered mediator and arbitrator and an APRN wound specialist. He is a clinical volunteer wound specialist practicing at Mercy Care Clinics and Street Medicine in Atlanta. He has published 23 books (8 have won AJN health care book of the year awards) and over 200 proctored journal articles. Tim has been called an enthusiastic, energetic and inspiring presenter and teacher and has lectured internationally at over 500 venues.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Healthcare in a Quantum Age
Chapter 2 Interdisciplinary Shared Governance: A Model for Integrated Professional Practice
Chapter 3 Building the Foundations: Transforming the Organization
Chapter 4 Constructing Integrated Care Delivery: Building a Service Continuum
Chapter 5 Decisions from the Center: Building a Sustainable Interdisciplinary Microsystem At the Point of Service
Chapter 6 The Operations (Management) Council: Leading Engagement, Making Shared Governance Work
Chapter 7 Transforming Governance: Linking Strategy With Practice
Chapter 8 Integrating Physicians and Building Provider Part nerships: A Community Hospital System Approach
Chapter 9 Information Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Decision-Making
Chapter 10 Creating Sustainable Community in Health Care