At Lake Norman Regional, our administration embraces a shared decision making management process. Shared governance:
Empowers nurses to participate in decision making processes
Encourages staff involvement
Empowers staff nurses to have a voice
Allows decentralization of decision making
This organizational framework embraces two theories of nursing. First, Jean Watson's Holistic Theory that healing is a holistic perspective and process of bringing together all aspects of oneself - body, mind, and spirit - to achieve and maintain integration and balance. And second, Florence Nightingale's theory of the nurse's role in optimizing the environment to improve patient comfort and facilitate health and healing.
