PUBH6004: Leadership and Effecting Change in Public Health

Running head: HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP
HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
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Introduction:
Leaders in the healthcare industry have the responsibility of clinical as well as quality-of-
life indicators as well as the well-being of the health system. They need to work with other
healthcare professionals from different healthcare domains. They need to develop strategies and
lead their subordinates effectively to fulfill the strategies and meet the aims and objectives set for
healthcare development (Priest & Gass, 2017). Effective collaboration with all stakeholders with
effective mixture of innovation, emotional intelligence and clinical and non-pharmacological
expertise can help leaders to successfully overcome different barriers and develop a better
community for all members. This assignment would be mainly based on analysis the case study
of a prospective healthcare leader called Helen. It will also show the different healthcare-
leadership approaches she needs to undertake to ensure effective outcome on the community
health and development.
Analysis and critique:
Effective health leadership framework advises prospective leaders to develop their
respective traits and values that help them in portraying as role model. They need to conduct
actions that are ethical and align with the requirements of the development of effective
healthcare leadership. Researchers are of the opinion that such leaders need to be self-aware and
thereby manage their values, beliefs and attitudes in ways by which they can act collaboratively
within teams and guide all stakeholders towards success (Delmatoff & Lazarus, 2014). They also
need to take responsibilities and find out ways for their personal development. They also need to
have their own strength of character. Helen is seen to be introvert and has never worked in
collaboration with other. Therefore, it might be possible that although he is an expert practitioner

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but might not show effective team leadership skills. She is introvert and therefore her
communication skills might not be also developed. Therefore, Helen needs to actively reflect on
their performance as a leader and assume the responsibility for engaging in learning as well as
growth. She would need to develop her communication skills, as she would need to communicate
with policy makers, funding authorities, architects and many others. Effective communication
skills are very important in development of teams. Moreover, she is also introvert, who might
have affected her relationship with other members and they might accept her in negative manner.
Therefore, she would need to develop the skills (Spurgeon et al., 2017).
The next set of trait that the leadership framework is effective engagement and
collaboration with different stakeholders to make programs successful. The leaders need to
value diversity and models as well as harbor cultural responsiveness. They need to ensure that all
consumers and workers are treated with dignity as well as respect in all settings (Trastek et al.,
2014). They also need to communicate with honesty and respect. They also need to strengthen
consumers, collages and even leaders. Helen is a new age healthcare professionals and are well
aware of the present day innovative systems that need to be inculcated in the communities to
ensure effective health development. However, the policy makers, architects and town planners
as well as the senior government stakeholders are not comfortable working with young people
like Helen. They are also skeptical about her abilities to become a healthcare officer. Therefore,
she would first need to develop effective relationship with all the stakeholders and gain their
trust and confidence. She needs to display her expertise and skills and impress the stakeholders at
first to gain their confidence. Following this, she needs to respect the values and beliefs of each
of the stakeholders and include them in effective decision-making. This would help in
development of bonds between the members and earn mutual respect among each other.

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Therefore, Helen will be able to strike effective relationship with the members and work as
teams effectively. Moreover, she had been given a ten-member team to initiate her actions. She
needs to provide respect to the suggestions of each of the embers ad include them in two-way
communication (Frankel et al., 2018). This would make the members feel that their leaders care
their opinions and this help in creating bonds among members as well.
Another important skill that the framework dictates is the effective driving of the
innovation by the healthcare leaders. Researchers are of the opinion that successful innovation in
healthcare can only follow from passionate leadership without which the status quo cannot be
challenged. The leaders need to champion the need for innovation as well as improvement. They
need to build the support for the change. They also need to positively contribute to the spreading
the innovative change (Cheng et al., 2016). Helen had successfully identified that people mainly
the senior citizens in the community are facing huge issues when they need specialist care. They
are not being able to access the specialist care, which require them to travel 300 kms to get
services they require. Hence, she had rightly identified the needs of innovative approaches like
that of tele-consultations and tele-surgery. This would help them to provide specialists care in
their own home or in the community clinics being connected with specialized services in the
urban areas. Therefore, in such arenas leaders need to influence informed discussion on the
health issues with every senior authority and need to challenge the traditional procedures. Helen
would need to encourage diverse voices as well as consumer involvement and advocate for their
better outcomes. She should also initiate and maintain a proper momentum for assessing, sharing
as well as celebrating different changes for people-centered services and system improvement.
She would need to discuss about the various benefits of the new innovative systems to the
traditional decision makers and need to discuss the funding systems successfully (Pepescu et al.,