Impact of Effective Leadership on Healthcare Quality and Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Health Care

Running head: HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
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1HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
1. Impact of effective or ineffective leadership on healthcare quality:
The health care setting is a highly demanding environment where challenges increase
because of escalating demand of services and high cost associated with care. Effective clinical
leadership is required to promote efficiency, integrate health care service and promote quality of
care in hospital setting. Effective clinical leadership involves presence of attributes in leaders
that helps to build relationship, motivate employees and clarify roles with team members (Sarto
& Veronesi, 2016). According to Daly et al. (2014), clinical leadership has been identified as a
driver of health service performance and active collaboration process with team leaders and other
inter-professional team helps in the reform process. High quality care is dependent on six
characteristics of safe, effective, reliable, patient-centered, efficient and equitable care and
clinical leaders are the individuals who motivate individuals to adapt those characteristics by
establishing a culture of patient safety and inspiring and retaining experiences staffs (Sfantou et
al., 2017).
In contrast to effective leadership, ineffective leadership has serious impact on quality of care
as well as patient outcomes. Poor leadership creates a situation of chaos in clinical setting and
leads to poor patient outcomes such as high rate of medical errors, staff turnover, stress and
burnout (Ford et al., 2016). Hence, as the planning and governance process and effective
integration of care is hampered due to poor leadership style, the focus should be to develop
effective clinical leaders with desirable characteristics of a transformational leadership style.
Such leadership can facilitate quality improvement initiatives in clinical setting.