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Patient Safety And Effective Leadership

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Patient Safety And Effective Leadership

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Running head: PATIENT SAFETY AND EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIPPATIENT SAFETY AND EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIPName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
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1PATIENT SAFETY AND EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIPPatient safety is one of the disciples of the healthcare sectors which mainly providesignificance to a culture of safety in the healthcare environment. This culture mainly involvesprevention, reduction, reporting as well as analysis of medical error which may lead to threats inpatient’s lives. In order to develop such culture among the healthcare staffs, leaders often play animportant role in the establishment of a highly expertise team with best skills and knowledge inthe genre. This essay will first discuss patient safety, followed by the importance of leadership inpatient safety. Three import at leadership styles will also be discussed along with thesimplification of the styles by depicting case scenario.Patient safety is defined as the maintenance of safety which results in prevention of anytypes of harm to the patient. Errors, injuries, infections accidents of nurses and other healthcareprofessional and many others often hamper patient’s health resulting in their higher level ofsuffering, longer hospital stays as well as poor quality life (Frankel & PGCMS, 2017). Hence,strong healthcare competent teams under effective leadership are important for reduction ofinfection rates, putting proper checks in places for prevention of mistakes and also ensuringstring lines communications between different stakeholders of healthcare like hospital staff,patients and their families to ensure safety of patients and provide them a good quality timeduring their stay in hospitals. Effective leadership in clinical practice will help in the foundation of a supportive,empathic, available, faithful and respectful environment among the team members in theworking environment. A leadership core strategy is to ensure that ‘voice is encouraged, heardand acted on across the organization as well as provide practical support to staffs to developinnovations within safe boundaries. Such a supportive leadership provides a greater scope fornurses to develop their knowledge and enhance their skills under their leaders about the correct
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2PATIENT SAFETY AND EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIPprocedures to maintain a culture of safety (Wong, 2015). The teammates also effectively reflectupon their tasks under the leaders and thereby develop the knowledge of quality of careprovided. Proper approaches of leadership ensure that the nurses are more careful in theirapproaches, are self motivated and are thriving for the best care to their patients. All these resultto better experiences of the patients, lesser mortality, and lesser readmissions helping them tosurvive the ordeals (Wong & Laschinger, 2013). Leaders ensure that the teammates arefollowing all the principle of nursing, following evidence based study, undergoing regularprofessional development course to develop skills, are happy, enthusiastic and compassionateand empathetic to their patients and are in knowledge with the modern proper nursing techniquesand procedures. All these ensure patient safety under effective leadership.Three important leadership styles that can be discussed in the context are thetransformational leadership, democratic leadership and Laissez-faire leadership. The firstleadership called the transformation leadership mainly portrays the leaders as an example that theteam members will follow. The leaders would exhibit a behaviour which will inspire the followerand at the same time make them change for the better (Tyczkowski et al., 2015). This type ofleaders will mainly portray hard work as the main pathway of success and encourage the workersto perform much beyond expectations. Such leaders never put themselves in the first position asthey place more importance on achieving the best on behalf of the organization. These leadersalso provide a clear vision to the workers for the future which motivates them to exceedthemselves. They question old assumptions and also traditional so that workers get the scope tocome up with novel ideas which help in solving issues more effectively. The second kind ofleadership is the democratic leadership where the team leader encourages the teammates to speakup and join a process of decision making (Wong, Cummings & Duchame, 2013). Such kind of
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