Clinical Leadership: An Annotated Bibliography

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Annotated Bibliography
Clinical Leadership
Introduction
Mannix, Wilkes, & Daly, (2013) define clinical leadership as a terminology which in a nutshell
summarizes the concept of clinical healthcare staff conducting the roles of leadership: promoting
values and vision, setting, inspiring and making use of their clinical knowledge to ascertain the
requirements of the patients are the core point of focus to the organization’s objectives and
delivery. Davidson, Elliott, & Daly, (2006) emphasizes the responsibility of clinical leaders in
transforming clinical services and enhancing quality for excellence. Efficient clinical leadership
is vital at every level and ought not to be seen as a responsibility of one person. All clinicians are
invited to participate in all leadership practices such as championing innovation, making policies
and ensuring that they are implemented. Many researchers and authors have explored the issue of
clinical leadership and undeniably most of them have succeeded in encapsulating the primary
concepts which fall under this field. The theoretical works of some of these writers will be the
main focus of this paper. Primarily, theses sources have been selected based on when they were
published, qualifications of the authors, as well as the span of the content coverage. Two peer
reviewed journal articles, two online books, and one web site article will be used to compose an
annotated bibliography.
Mianda, S., & Voce, A. S. (2017). Conceptualizations of clinical leadership: a review of the
literature. Journal of healthcare leadership, 9, 79.

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Summary of the Main Ideas Presented and a Critical Analysis of the Content
Mianda and Voce in this research article point out that clinical leadership takes an important role
in creating a safe and healthy clinical work environment as well as ensuring quality patient care.
Owing to the frequent poor patient care and extreme occurrences in health centers globally,
activists have resolved to promote and call for strong clinical leadership. These authors conclude
that clinical leadership responsibilities can be shared amongst frontline healthcare providers,
irrespective of the rank held in the organizational chain of command, to ensure positive patient
outcomes. The content of this article is well backed up with evidence and thus it provides a
reliable description on the concept of clinical leadership. With a close look at the methodologies
used to reach at the conclusion one can comprehend that clinical leadership is a key success
factor in the current healthcare practices. However, it is worth noting that it is not a role of a
single person rather it should be seen as a responsibility of everybody. Mianda and Voce present
their arguments in a chronological manner without any flaws. Nonetheless, the research has
various gaps which the researchers have identified such as a constrained range of articles that
reported conceptualizations of clinical leadership used in the literature review
Mianda and Voce base their research on a systematic quantitative literature review of materials
published between 2004 and 2016 that were obtained from search engines such as EBSCOhost
and Google scholar, Electronic databases and electronic journals. This particular review was
carried out to investigate conceptualizations of clinical leadership in the literature, from the
viewpoints of frontline healthcare providers. The results after interpretation showed that clinical
leadership unlike health service management is conceptualized as a role to be done by every
frontline healthcare administer with a direct contact with patients, irrespective of their rank in the

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organizational hierarchy. The authors use evidence established by actual researches in diverse
settings such as Australia, UK, Ireland, and New Zealand. These studies involved mainly
primary data from the field and thus they had ample prove supporting the arguments of Mianda
and Voce. They were all designed to identify, investigate, define or capture the viewpoints of
frontline healthcare providers on the issue of clinical leadership. Needless to say, this source has
helped me augment my understanding of the clinical leadership concept. It has a well structured
flow of ideas which has enabled me to acquire a deeper comprehension of this particular subject.
Every topic which the researchers have touched on is critical to my entire understanding of
conceptualizations of clinical leadership.
Daly, J., Jackson, D., Mannix, J., Davidson, P. M., & Hutchinson, M. (2014). The importance of
clinical leadership in the hospital setting. Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 6, 75-83.
In this article the authors point out that despite the tremendous transformations and reforms
which have been achieved in the health sector, there is the need for leadership. This leadership
should significantly originate from doctors and other clinicians whether they have any
managerial role or not. The researchers argue that with a successful implementation of clinical
leadership, other integral components of healthcare such as timely care delivery, system
efficiency and integrity, as well as achievement of health reform objectives will be attained with
ease. Just like Mianda and Voce, Daly et al also argue that all frontline healthcare professionals
have a critical role to play in fulfilling leadership roles. They conclude that effective clinical
leadership comes along with optimal hospital performance and thus it is an important constituent
in the healthcare system. These researchers unlike others who have investigated this topic have
discussed various barriers which hinder a successful implementation of clinical leadership. They