Background: The concept of shared governance added into nursing in the 1980s as a professional practice model in which both nursing staff and nursing management are involved in decision-making.Successful implementation of shared governance leads to a greater commitment to the organization.Aim: the current study aimed to determine the relation between shared governance, and organizational commitment among nursing managers in Port-Said hospitals.Subjects and Methods: A descriptive correlation design was applied in this study.The study was conducted in eight hospitals affiliated to the Ministry of Health in Port-Said Governorate.Study sample was 118 nursing managers.Two tools were used for data collection; Index of Professional Nursing Governance Questionnaire and Organizational Commitment Scale.Results: The results of the present study showed the majority of nursing managers (94.9%) had shared governance and more than two-thirds of them (72.9%) were committed to their organizations.Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, it can be concluded that, there was no statistically significance relation between shared governance and organizational commitment among nursing managers in Port-Said hospitals.It was recommended that hospitals' organizational structure officially redesigned and develop or adopt shared governance model.
Authors: Aya Nasr
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21608/pssjn.2018.33321
Publish Year: 2018
