Shared Leadership

Our nursing shared leadership structures and processes provide nurses in direct care positions with opportunities for involvement in decision-making that affects their daily practice. Committees have been established at the hospital-wide, departmental and unit levels in order to facilitate both horizontal and vertical communication across the Division of Nursing.

All major nursing departments are represented on the hospital-wide Shared Leadership Committees (pdf). The work of the committees is coordinated through the Chief Nurse Executive Coordinating Council.

A listing of the major committees is shown below. Each of these committees helps to create a practice environment that fosters nursing excellence and promotes autonomy, clinical decision making and accountability for nursing practice.

Nursing Professional Practice Committee

Oversees nursing practice to ensure safe, high quality, evidence-based care, such as:

• Overseeing the development and revision of nursing policies and procedures
• Recommending evidence-based practice changes to meet Best Patient Experience goals
• Reviewing the hospital's written staffing plan bi-annually to ensure ongoing staffing compliance by Patient Acuity Legislation

Nursing Education & Professional Development Committee

Promotes knowledge, skill and competency through education and professional development.

Nursing Research & Evidence-Based Practice Committee

Advances research and evidence-based practice projects through education, mentoring and the development of effective processes and support structures.

Nursing Best People & Professional Excellence Committee

Develops and implements programs and initiatives to promote recruitment and retention and to foster a safe and healthy work environment.

Nursing Technology & Informatics Committee

Implements and optimizes the use of technology and informatics to promote the delivery of safe and effective patient care.

Nursing Quality & Patient Safety Committee

Creates a culture of quality within nursing that supports the Best Patient Experience.

• Advance the quality of care
• Maximize patient safety through supporting hospital-wide quality plans and goals
• Develop an annual quality plan
• Monitor identified quality indicators
• Develop interventions to achieve target metrics
• Oversee unit-based quality councils

Nursing Finance Committee

Promotes the delivery of safe, effective and cost-efficient patient care by evaluating, implementing and optimizing fiscal responsibility across all areas of nursing.

Departmental Shared Leadership Committees (SLCs)

Provides an ongoing forum to facilitate the flow of information to and from Shared Leadership Committees.

• Develop, implement and evaluate programs and initiatives at the departmental and unit levels to foster the following:
  • Quality
  • Patient safety
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Nursing excellence
• Provide department/division specific perspective to guide decision-making

Area Quality & Department Practice Committees

In conjunction with the Patient Safety and Quality Committee, the unit-based quality committees monitor metrics, identify opportunities for improvement and work on initiatives that improve patient outcomes.