Clinical governance and nursing power

The nursing view of clinical governance.

This article outlines the findings from three RCN discussion groups, which aimed to gain an understanding of how nurses were responding to clinical governance and to what extent they were involved in its implementation. The article focuses mainly on the third round with clinical nursing staff, senior managers and clinical governance facilitators. Three key issues were reported by nurses taking ...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Shareholder Power and Corporate Governance

The pattern of ownership and control of British industry is unusual compared with most other countries in that ownership is relatively dispersed. Typically the largest shareholder in any large listed company is likely to own a voting minority of the shares. Majority ownership by a single shareholder is unusual. It is not uncommon for the largest shareholding to be under 20 percent and in many c...

CEO Power, Compensation, and Governance∗

This paper presents a contracting model of governance based on the premise that CEOs are the main promoters of governance change. CEOs use their power to extract higher pay or private benefits, and different governance structures are preferred by different CEOs as they favor one or the other type of compensation. The model explains why good countrywide investor protection breeds good firm gover...

Clinical Nursing Education Based on Nursing Process and Group Discussion

Introduction: Considering the importance of promoting nursing education and benefits of new teaching methods, especially group discussion, this study aimed to compare the effects of group discussion combined with the nursing process and traditional method on learning and satisfaction of nursing students in clinical situations. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted during 2009 on 28...