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¶ … Leaders in Healthcare Facilities
THE CAUSE AND ITS REMEDIES
Lack of Leadership in Healthcare Facilities
When clinicians provide care, they necessarily assume leadership responsibilities (Blumenthal et al., 2012). Existing evidence demonstrates that effective leadership produces the desired clinical outcomes. Yet only scattered residency programs teach and train residents on leadership. Many clinicians are thus poorly prepared to meet the leadership requirement of their daily tasks (Blumenthal et al.).
Canada's national health care system urgently recommended drastic changes, which to this day, have hardly been implemented (Goldberg & Page, 2006). Billions have been consistently spent yet patients continue to form long lines in waiting rooms to obtain treatment. Emergency rooms remained full and many still do not have primary physicians to turn to. The cause of the problem is not the lack of money but leadership. This report said that 70% of all the strategic initiatives and approved changes have not been worked on and the desired outcomes missed. Only good leadership is needed to trigger the momentum of...
When the lack of effective leadership is filled and management processes are updated, adequate capacity will follow and the financial deficit will be reduced. The stress and conflict that have accompanied the lack will likewise be reduced. The new leadership clamored for does not need to be out-of-the-ordinary. It only needs to be merely human (Goldberg & Page).
From the present set of resident, potential leaders must be identified, recognized and developed (Goldberg & Page, 2006). Their would-be leadership experience is not only ideal but required at all levels to implement and lead needed changes across disciplines and organizations, team-building and motivating interests and capabilities. These would-be effective leaders are those who behave, render decisions and deliver according to values and outcomes. They enable their constituents through varying environments and situations, emphasizing on accountability and identifying as well as addressing non-performance. These leaders of the future listen, assess possibilities, comprehend information and facilitate changes. They collaborate various perspectives, work well during conflict and learn…
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