title: Faculty governance: a key to professional autonomy.
abstract: Faculty governance can play a central role in modeling professional autonomy to student nurses during their socialization processes. Nurse educators, however, may be more familiar with bureaucratic models of governance than with collegial models of governance. The collegial or shared governance model offers nursing access to enhanced academic maturity, and deserves nursings' close attention and study.
mesh_terms: D003709:Democracy; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011364:Professional Practice