Ethical Challenges in Healthcare: Leadership Skills and Recommendations

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Abstract
This report has focused on a crisis like ethical challenges faced by the public leaders. The paper
had emphasised on the different ethical issues faced in the health care sector and has also focused
on the leadership skills like the practical skills, theoretical skills, interactive skills and emotional
intelligence. The paper contained recommendations about how the leaders can use this skills for
addressing the current ethical issues of health care. The leadership theory that has been explained
has given a better understanding of the crisis that the leaders are facing and the way, those crisis
will be addressed.

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Table of Contents
Problem statement...........................................................................................................................3
Various ethical issue that require effective leadership initiatives...................................................3
Public health leadership theory........................................................................................................5
Leaders member exchange theory...................................................................................................7
Theoretical Gap...............................................................................................................................7
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Problem statement
Ethical challenges has long been an important problem in health care. There had been
recent stories supporting the claim about the ethical violation of the health care providers. Ethical
violations are found in regards to the equal access to health care services, discrimination among
the patients, fowl play and malpractice and heinous crimes such as sexual assault. The role of the
public health leaders are changing to address all the changes. A comprehensive theoretical
understanding of the leadership health crisis is required for any leadership application. Hence
this report would focus on the different ethical violations and challenges that requires leadership
attention in the field of health care.
Various ethical issue that require effective leadership initiatives
There had been many cases where malpractices of the doctors has led to the death of
several children. Again there had been cases where health professionals had been accused of
sexual misconduct. Again many patients have to suffer inevitably due to the mistake of the
doctors during their care in the hospital (West et al., 2014). Many people who require prompt
diagnosis or screenings often have to wait for several months for receiving these services. The
above mentioned cases are just some of the examples of the ethical issues that the doctors have
to face. However, the highest ethical challenges faced by the doctors are the incongruity between
the patients and the health care providers regarding the treatments decisions (Flite & Harman,
2013). In many cases the health care experts might put an option for treatment that is deeply
unacceptable to the family of the patient. Another common ethical challenge is the growing
waiting list. With the increasing demand of the health care, the strain on the health care
infrastructure is increasing. Large waiting list also deteriorate the type of care provided