<b>Introduction: </b> Shared governance is a specific leadership style which incorporates commitment to the value of shared decision-making among key stakeholders around issues that affect the work environment. It also provides a dynamic staff-leader partnership that promotes collaboration, shared decision making and accountability for improving quality of care, safety and enhancing work life Read More

Meeting name: SPR 2018 Annual Meeting & Postgraduate Course , 2018

Authors: Harris Chris

Keywords: Shared Goverance, Employee engagement, Professional Practice Model

Background: Brain MRI has become an integral tool in the diagnosis and management of neonates with possible brain injury. In a large quaternary care neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), MRIs are routinely performed for the identification of white matter lesions in preterm infants, prognostication in hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, peri-operative evaluation of patients with meningomyeloceles and hydrocephalus among other indications. Patients are often sedated in order to obtain high quality images, but sedation comes with complications. As these studies become an integral part of our practice in the NICU, we have identified a need to minimize the use of sedation to obtain clinically acceptable neonatal brain MRIs. Read More

Meeting name: SPR 2017 Annual Meeting & Categorical Course , 2017

Authors: Harris Chris

Keywords: Quality Improvements, Reduce Sedation, MRI brains