Leadership Styles And Patient Safety

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INTRODUCTION
Leadership is the behavior of an individual when leading the happenings of a given team
headed for a shared objective. Leadership initiatives have a direct association with improvement
in in patient care or the organizational results when applied in the healthcare environment.
Having the ability to change leadership tactics based on conditions is a helpful leadership skill
that needs to be taken in the administration position. On the other hand, patient well-being refers
to the preclusion of errors and the severe effects to patients that are associated with healthcare.
Healthcare is more effective but also complex since it incorporates utilization of new
technologies and treatments every day. Patient well-being is more indispensable fragment of
nursing care that targets at the deterrence of preventable errors and patient impairment. Patient
safety is a feature of healthcare structure and a set of techniques of refining healthcare.
Evidence based nursing and quality healthcare have been recognized as critical tools for
the establishment of effective healthcare. Administration and headship of healthcare professional
is important for delivering quality healthcare (Richardson & Storr, 2015). There exists
different styles of leadership but there are six of them that are so distinct which include;
transformational, transactional, repressive, task leaning and affiliation oriented (Laschinger &
Leiter, 2017). Transformational leadership style is the one which includes the creation of
relationships and motivation of workers. Transformational leaders inspire confidence in leaders
and the workers communicate loyalty in this style of leadership. This leadership style is linked
with increased productivity (Ruchlin, Dubbs, Callahan, & Fosina, 2017). Despotic
leadership panache is perfect for predicaments because the leaders make decisions without
considering the opinion of the staff. Here, mistakes are not tolerated .For the laissez –faire
management tactic; the trailblazer does not make any choices, the staff acts devoid of following

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any particular direction and there exists hands off resulting in very rare alterations. Task
preoccupied with leadership elegance is concerned with scheduling of work events, the
amplification of tasks in a crew of workers and measuring performance process. Relationship
oriented leadership style is concerned with the incorporation of support, growth and
acknowledgment.
Eminent care is an important component for any institution to achieve high efficiency
levels in the healthcare organizations. It is defined as the degree by which the likelihood of
realizing health products is augmented in line with the professional information and skills that
are in healthcare services (Ginsburg, Norton, & Casebeer, 2016). Measuring health outcome
is a primary constituent of evaluating quality care. A clinical conclusion refers to the health state
of a given patient as a result of healthcare. The measures of patient gratification establish shorter
patient dimension of stay, the transience level in a given hospital, level of healthcare associated
inflections, the failed rescue ratio, restrained use and errors made in medication, inadequacy in
pain management, the rate of patient fall and urinary tract infections (Mohr, Abelson, &
Barach, 2017).
Leadership style has been addressed as a vital element in the deliverance of quality
healthcare. Operative leadership is one of the most critical mechanisms in healthcare leadership
for any successful results (Ruchlin, Dubbs, Callahan, & Fosina, 2017). There have been
significant reports on constructive relations between operative tactics of leadership and high
ranks of patient gratification. Leadership styles are important in delivering quality healthcare in
nursing. Transformational leadership has a strong relationship with the execution of operative
administration that leads to the establishment of ethos of patient safety (Künzle, Kolbe, &
Grote, 2016). Empowerment of leadership has a link with patient outcomes through the