Poor Leadership in Healthcare

OBSTACLES AND FACTORS

Barriers to a Successful Leadership Improvement Plan

In a great many cases, major failures in healthcare leadership are hard to discover or surface by themselves for investigation (Walshe & Shortell, 2004). Often, many of them are revealed only by accident or chance and even then, what is discovered may only be part of an entire problem that has escaped notice or been kept from being discovered. Major failures may come out as an accidental result of some very unpleasant event, a staff member or outside may raise this concern, by the perseverance of one or a few motivated individuals or through media exposure. Despite current systems for quality assurance or improvement in most healthcare organizations and in developed countries at that, major failures are not all too easily known. These systems, which include incident reporting, clinical profiling, mortality and morbidity review, credentialing, risk...
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