Mar 23, 2016
Research has shown that
nurses who participate in shared decision making (SDM) have more
control over their practice and greater job satisfaction, and
hospitals that have instituted SDM have lower rates of nurse
turnover and better patient outcomes. AJN’s
editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with Karen Murray, who wrote
about the successful implementation of a shared decision-making
structure at a pediatric Magnet hospital and the lessons learned
from the project.