Shared governance is a structural model for framing professional practice within an organizational format. After 25 years of research and development, basic principles that undergird the appropriate and sustaining structures of shared governance have become well established. Understanding, translating, and applying these principles will help those implementing nursing shared governance to build a strong professional structure, which can serve as a framework for constructing and expressing professional practices, processes, and relationships.
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