Unit III Annotated Bibliography

Healthcare leaders must identify effective strategies to ensure the provision of the possible leadership in their organizations and in the industry. Leadership is a key aspect of the growth, development, and success of any organization. Therefore, there must be a strategic vision in order accomplish the goal of the best quality patient care possible and must be accompanied by appropriate strategies. The healthcare industry is of interest to me because I am the Director of Nursing for a small rural acute care facility. Due to our location, we have a very diverse patient population. It is important for me to understand the most effective leadership strategies to lead our organization through the operational challenges that are prevalent in the health care industry so that our leadership team can make this hospital and organization as successful as possible.

Leaders of health care systems of all sizes and complexities are struggling to maintain operations in a business environment complicated by shrinking reimbursements and increasingly complex regulation. As healthcare organizations utilize more matrixed department and leadership at the senior level becomes less hierarchical, leadership has evolved from a top down structure to become more about the ability to influence others to effect optimal outcomes than about the positions or titles.

For any health care organization to be successful, the employees are required to work together to achieve its key performance metrics and qualility goal. The leaders acknowledge that for quality to be achieved there must be a direction, arrangement and set objectives that require realization. The acknowledgment, therefore, drives leaders to create inspiring visions at every operationalized level. It also shows them the need to design clear and aligned objectives for all levels and departments. Thus, once a culture created based on these attributes adheres to the institution can credit itself to delivering quality healthcare to patients.

Leadership strategies when effectively integrated into organizational culture significantly impact the care provided to pathients. Leaders who display an authentic and transformational leadership style allow for the recognition of needed change and are capable of guiding change by inspiring followers and creating a sense of commitment.

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