For the CBU, the criterion meant a

For the CBU, the criterion meant a model that included shared decision making regarding hospital policies that would lead ultimately to control over resources affecting practice, including personnel and mandating overtime. Such control over practice, labeled organizational or professional autonomy, had been contrasted in the literature to clinical autonomy, defined as "individual decision making for a patient" (Kramer & Schmalenberg, 2002, p. 42).