Poor Leadership in Healthcare

IDENTIFYING AND REMEDYING

The Ethical Dilemma

A recent study examined some theories of leadership to determine which type or types of leaders affect the quality of care (Firth-Cozens & Mowbray, 2001). The study found that the type of leadership produces stress or well-being of healthcare staff. This, in turn, redounds into the quality of care provided. (Firth-Cozens & Mowbray).

Alternatives

Major failures result from poor leadership (Walshe & Shortell, 2004). They include long-standing problems; key people and other stakeholders' awareness of problems but ignoring them; extensive or immense harm or injury on patients and the resulting huge and additional costs; lack of management systems; and repeated incidents of failures. Long-standing problems have existed for some time but remain unknown. Some key people and other stakeholders in the health facility may have known these issues but did nothing about them. A most obvious consequence of poor leadership...
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