EXPANSION OF SHARED GOVERNANCE AND PRACTICE STANDARDS

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated academic healthcare delivery systems dedicated to providing the highest quality and most compassionate care and service to patients. NYP recently acquired five regional hospitals located throughout New York, which presented the opportunity to improve the quality of care and scope of services offered at the regional level. The Capstone team reviewed and implemented recommendations to evaluate the opportunity for integration of NYP's nursing practice standards and shared governance across the NYP Regional Hospital Network. The team's research culminated in a report that analyzed best practices of shared governance structures, standardization, and implementation processes at NYP, across the Regional Hospital Network, and with other multi-level hospital network systems.