I want to start out by saying I enjoyed your post and thank you for sharing your personal experience with shared governance. Shared governance as you explained it a concept that promotes nurses to have participation and decision making power of their practice and the environment in which they practice (). This concept of shared governance is a big change from the traditional management style seen in the nursing profession in which nurses have little power within formal hierarchic structures (). This traditional way of governance prevented professionals who worked the floor and provided that care to have input. In my personally experience it also created barrier between the floor staff and the management in the organization that made the decisions.
