Rethinking Your Unit Council Structure: An Ionnovative Approach to Professional Governance in Healthcare

Rapid change is constant in the healthcare industry, leaving hospitals and the units within to react and adapt. Unfortunately, the typical shared (professional) governance structure fails to address the challenges of modern healthcare systems, both in efficiency and ability to maintain long-term change. As a result, change in healthcare is often met with roadblocks and resistance.

Rethinking Your Unit Council Structure applies the innovative FLIGHT Model of risk and change to:

Determine your unit s immediate needs
Empower team members to identify problems and initiate solutions
Transcend elements of traditional unit council structures that hinder progress
Improve staff engagement and satisfaction

This book provides a solutions-based approach to determining and addressing the unique needs of your unit, hospital, or system so that your change initiatives can succeed.

Beth Browder, MHSA, BSN, RN-BC, NE-BC, is the Executive Director for Professional Nursing Practice, Quality and Education and the Magnet Program Director for John Muir Health.

Gilbert Fuentes, MSN, RN, CMSRN, ONC, is the Adult Acute Care Nursing Manager for Medical Telemetry at John Muir Health.

Roxanne Holm, MSN, RN-BC, is a Nursing Professional Development Specialist in acute care at John Muir Health.

Deborah Macy, BSN, RN-BC, is a Unit Supervisor on a medical-surgical unit that specializes in endocrine, renal, and stroke patient populations at John Muir Health.

Jacqui Middlemiss, BSN, RN, ONC, CMSRN, is a Clinical Nurse and Relief Charge Nurse on a medical-surgical unit that specializes in endocrine, renal, and stroke patient populations at John Muir Health.