Opportunities for Change

Opportunities for Change Within Healthcare
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Opportunities for Change Within Healthcare
In Healthcare, leadership and management change is a vital reform that should be implemented to improve the quality of services and resource used in the healthcare facilities. Creating cultures that are aimed at changing the leadership systems in healthcare is essential as reports indicate that there are challenges in our healthcare that can be addressed by good management at all levels of the sector (West et al., 2014). There are some issues that have been necessitating a review of the way in which health sector is being run. A major problem that has been identified is the acute lack of understanding and cooperation among the health staff that has resulted in poor patient outcomes. Additionally, misappropriation of funds has been linked to rogue leaders managing the health facilities, a situation that has led to poor service delivery. According to Dorros, there is a dire need for leadership and managerial competencies at all levels considering the constant-changing healthcare systems. Therefore, new approaches, such as decentralization of the existing health system, for strong and reliable leadership to be realized (Dorros, 2015).
Leadership and management change on the health care impacts positively on the healthcare organization. There is a positive connection between a ‘clan culture’ kind of leadership and patient satisfaction. Clan culture entails the emphasis on the participation of all stakeholders in the healthcare and loyalty to its traditions (Dickinson et al.

, 2013). The importance of this change is that it promotes team working and emphasizes on enhancing the quality of services offered to patients. There have been strong links between good leadership and staff satisfaction. With such relational leadership style, medical errors and mortality rates will be likely be lowered (Van Bogaert et al. 2016).

References
Dickinson, H., Ham, C., Snelling, I., & Spurgeon, P. (2013). Are we there yet? Models of medical leadership and their effectiveness: an exploratory study. NIHR Service Delivery and Organization Program.
Dorros, G. L. (2015). Building management capacity to rapidly scale up health services and health outcomes. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
Van Bogaert, P., Timmermans, Wouters, K., & Franck, E. (2014). Nursing unit teams matter: Impact of unit-level nurse practice environment, nurse work characteristics, and burnout on nurse reported job outcomes, and quality of care, and patient adverse events—A cross-sectional survey. International journal of nursing studies, 51(8), 1123-1134.
West, M. A., Eckert, R., Steward, K., & Pasmore, W. A. (2014). Developing collective leadership for health care. King’s Fund.