Leadership Styles in Promoting Patient Safety in Clinical Settings

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Introduction
Leadership is considered as the most crucial factor that helps in the shaping of an
organization. Effective leaders in the health care services emphasize on practices that are safe,
high quality and compassionate. They do so by offering supportive, empathetic, fair and
empowering leadership (Barr & Dowding, 2019).
This paper will explore the roles of leaders in promoting a patient safety in clinical
settings. In order to do that a succinct definition of the leadership styles and patient safety has
been provided. In this assignment, the role of a clinical leader has been analyzed in the lens of
medication safety.
Definition of the term “leadership” and “patient safety” and relationship between the two
Leadership can be defined as the characteristics that can guide and influence the behavior
of the others and work towards the accomplishment of the goals or it can also be stated as the
ability of person to induce the subordinates to perform with zeal and performance. Effective
leadership has been found to be important in shaping up the culture of the organization and
implementation of the reforms in the health care sector (Chapman, Johnson & Kilner, 2014).
Patient safety can be defined to be prevention of arm to the patients, emphasizing on the
type of health care service that helps in the prevention of the errors, learns from the errors that
occurs and the service is built on a culture of safety involving the health care professionals,
patients and the organization.
There had been several instances where a clear association between the performance of a
hospital and board activities has been found. A review on the year 2013 on a high ranked