Committee Meeting
Collaborative committees have a significant role in making sure of the efficient operations and the tendency of healthcare committees to carry out their tasks (Kutney-Lee et al., 2016. There are different strategies by which various committees practice their collaborative as well as connective responsibilities to govern the facility. In healthcare settings, shared governance backs and enhances collective role and liability for making of decisions on the aspects that affect nursing practices (Gubrud, Spencer & Wagner, 2017). The essay discusses the function as well as the responsibility of a collaborative committee meeting that I attended. Additionally, it will outline whether the meeting used the model of shared governance and the strategies utilized in sustaining the model.
Functions and Role of the Committee
I recently had a chance to attend a health professional’s committee meeting at the Geriatrics department in my school, the University of Michigan. I am currently pursuing a nursing degree at the school. The committee consisted of ten professionals from different fields and with differing viewpoints. These included four registered nurses, three registered nurses, three doctors, a nurse manager, and a charge nurse. The main agenda of the committee was to evaluate the issues about the rising number of inpatient elderly patients who suffer from pressure ulcers.
Role of Attendees
The committee started on time and was organized correctly. I had a chance to observe different bits of the model of shared governance via the conversations among the members of the committee. For example, I noted that the coordinator or leader of the team had distributed team agendas before the actual meeting. This promoted a common agenda because each person knew what was to be included in the discussion and was ready to offer different perspectives and present queries based on the main agenda. Each of the members was free to express their opinions and share their contribution to facilitating more informed decisions.
Interactions between Committee Members
Each member of the committee appeared to understand the agenda well, and the main topics to be discussed during the meeting. The members interacted freely and gave each other enough time to present their contributions. Despite their different fields, they collaborated well and made decisions as a group. In case of any disagreement, the members corrected each other amicably by disagreeing politely and, at the same time, sharing their points of view. The coordinator had an easy time since the team members understood their goal and remained committed to achieving it. The members truly put aside their differences in qualifications and worked as a group to attain a shared goal.
Did the meeting use Shared Governance or not?
The process utilized in arriving at decisions can be termed as shared governance. The committee members, who are professionals in different disciplines, came together to address an issue that they have encountered in their work. Since they all handle elderly patients with pressure ulcers at different levels during treatment, working as a team to determine the reason for rising inpatients would help improve the quality of care. During the session, the members exhibited partnership, ownership, accountability, and equity in coming up with a collective final decision.
Conclusion
The planning and organization of collaborative committee meetings within the healthcare industry and having members attend is certainly not a hard task. However, the decisions they have to make about management healthcare or facilitation of patient-centered strategies during the session is the challenging aspect (Streeton et al., 2016). During the committee meeting in my school, shared governance was used to make decisions, and the meeting was eventually a success.
References
Gubrud, P., Spencer, A. G., & Wagner, L. (2017). From start-up to sustainability: A decade of collaboration to shape the future of nursing. Nursing education perspectives, 38(5), 225-232.
Kutney-Lee, A., Germack, H., Hatfield, L., Kelly, M. S., Maguire, M. P., Dierkes, A., & Aiken, L. H. (2016). Nurse engagement in shared governance and patient and nurse outcomes. The Journal of nursing administration, 46(11), 605.
Streeton, A., Bisbey, C., O’Neill, C., Allen, D., O’Hara, S., Weinhold, M., & Grubbs, P. (2016). Improving nurse-physician teamwork: a multidisciplinary collaboration. Medsurg Nursing, 25(1), 31.