Nurses' critical reflections of working in unit practice councils-A qualitative interview study.

Aim: This study aimed to describe nurses' experiences of working as members of unit practice councils.

Background: Health care organisations worldwide want personnel to participate in decision-making. Unit practice councils promote unit-level decision-making over unit-specific issues.

An integrative review on interventions for strengthening professional governance in nursing.

Aim: To identify the interventions for strengthening professional nursing governance and describe their outcomes.

Background: The ever-changing health care environment requires empowering governance structures and shared decision-making. The costly nature of reshaping governance makes the identification of effective interventions vital.

Professional governance in Finnish nursing - measured by the Index of Professional Nursing Governance.

Aim: To translate and validate the Index of Professional Nursing Governance (IPNG) 2.0 and assess the state of professional nursing governance in Finland.

Background: Raising and maintaining quality of care while retaining staff are common problems in healthcare globally.

Nursing shared governance at hospitals - it's Finnish future?

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe council structure, its benefits, supportive and obstructive factors and developmental needs as a part of shared governance in a university hospital.

Design/methodology/approach: This is a descriptive study, where semi-structured interviews with 12 nurses was conducted in 2014 and documents from 75 council meetings from 2009 to 2014 were gathered and analyzed. Qualitative content analysis method was used on the data.