Clinical Leadership and Professional Relationship

Running Head: CLINICAL LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP
CLINICAL LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP
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1CLINICAL LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP
Effective healthcare is an important issue that needs proper leadership and guidance in
order to ensure patients’ health and safety. The progress in technology helps to reduce human
error in organisations. In this regard, the installation of the Electronic medication management
system (EMM) systems in the Australian healthcare organisations can be considered as a
benevolent step taken by the government. It requires proper change management plan and in-
depth understanding before going for a drastic transformation. Henceforth, the purpose of this
report is to conduct a detailed research on an organisation and evaluate the plan and
consequences of implementing the EMM system. Moreover, the report also encompasses a
change management model, that is, Lewin’s model and highlights a leadership style in the name
of transformational leadership for the success of the change and identified the potential
resistances while implementing EMM system.
It can be a seen that the number of nurses is not adequate in hospitals to curb down the
pressure (Reale et al., 2016). Therefore, the new system will enable the hospital staff to take
proper care of their patients and reduce error in their practice. The present case scenario stated
that, the hospital has 200 beds but the number of nurses are limited. As a result of that it becomes
a huge pressure on the nurses to deal with the critical conditions.
The Australian government is keen to deliver the EMM system free of cost and installed
directly onto the ward computers. This facility is very promising for the hospitals where people
are neglected due to lack of staff or other management issues (Volpi et al., 2015). Therefore, it
will be beneficial for the hospital to take the privileges provided by the government in the form
of giving the EMM system free of costs and free of any instalment charges.

2CLINICAL LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP
For the change in the medication system it requires a change management plan and the
Lewin’s change management plan is the best way to make it successful. As per the Lewin’s
change management plan there are three stages in the form of unfreeze, change and refreeze
(Manchester et al., 2014).
Before going to take necessary steps to implement a change, it is important for the nurse
or midwifery manager to inform the nurses about the need for a change (Mahmood et al., 2017).
In this context, the importance of the EMM system has to be mentioned and the impact of the
EMM system also to be addressed. This process will take 4 days to finish its part. After
involving the nurses in the change process the change process can be initiated. In this process,
the installation of the EMM systems in the medication and other healthcare facilities will be
occurred. The role of the managers is to supervise the entire process and keep a track of every
change (Bejinariu et al., 2017). The change stage will take 2 days to complete the process. The
refreeze stage is associated with the outcome of the change. As the purpose of this change is to
create better workplace environment with more effective and accurate framework therefore it is
advisable to make proper adjustments and carry out an internal evaluation of the change system
(Cummings, Bridgman & Brown, 2016). The refreeze stage takes 1 month to assess and evaluate
the efficacy of the new change.
The change process is certainly requires a leader to guide the process to success. In this
regard, there are a number of leadership styles in the form of transformational, transactional and
the charismatic leadership that can be beneficial for the organisation while installing the new
EMM system. However, the transformational leadership will be the best option for the
healthcare organisation. According to McCleskey (2014) transformational leadership can be
defined as the leadership style that enhances relationship building with the followers or other