Relationship Between Leadership Style And Patient Safety

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Running Head: Relationship Between Leadership Style And Patient Safety
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADERSHIP STYLE AND
PATIENT SAFETY

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Relationship Between Leadership Style And Patient Safety
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Definitions of leadership and patient safety...............................................................................3
Description of leadership styles.................................................................................................4
Relationship between patient safety and leadership style..........................................................4
Critical analysis of two leadership style.....................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
Reference list..............................................................................................................................9

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Relationship Between Leadership Style And Patient Safety
Introduction
Leaders of healthcare industry face challenges in solving critical problems with their
critical thinking. This phenomenon of leadership ensures safety of patients by providing the
best quality patient care by healthcare staff including nurses. Leadership skills help
healthcare professionals to decide for navigating complicated healthcare setting. It is
important to select appropriate leadership style to ensure patient safety. Ensuring medication
safety is an important responsibility of healthcare organizations. This essay is focusing on
defining leadership and patient safety at the beginning.
Definitions of leadership and patient safety
Leadership:
This term can be defined as the ability of an individual or a group of individuals to
guide and influence followers and different other members in a company or institution. As
defined by Lin, MacLennan, Hunt & Cox (2015), leadership is a difficult process that
involves taking appropriate decisions and articulation and creating a clear vision that can
guide subordinates to achieve organizational goals.
Patient safety:
Patient safety is the absence of any preventable harm to a care receiver during the
process of healthcare. Moreover, patient safety can also be defined as protecting a patient
from different errors, infections, injuries and accidents in the healthcare setting as these
factors may increase complications of the patient (Hospitalsafetygrade.org, 2018).
Reduction of the risk related to unnecessary harm related to healthcare must be achieved to
an acceptable minimum.