Peer Responses-Quality Patient Care and Better Patient Outcomes

Peer Responses-Quality Patient Care and Better Patient Outcomes 

Thank you for your post. I agree with you. Quality patient care and better patient outcomes are a result of interdisciplinary cooperation and collaboration in healthcare delivery settings. Interdisciplinary cooperation to achieve the desired patient and organizational outcomes means bringing together healthcare professionals from diverse specializations and care backgrounds for common care goals. This creates a complex team of culturally and professionally diverse individuals with a diverse and broad view of care values, ethics, and beliefs. These create a need to adopt a leadership approach capable of harmonizing such differences in the interdisciplinary team. Research evidence has noted that good leadership is a critical element for the development of sustainable interdisciplinary collaboration due to its impact on healthcare staff satisfaction (Kiwanuka et al., 2021). This makes implementing the servant leadership style the most fitting leadership approach to managing and leading interdisciplinary teams.

As you may have noticed, servant leadership practices aim to create an environment for the individual within a group to feel empowered and motivated at an individual level, impacting their capacity to improve and deliver improved results. Servant leadership adopts a holistic approach to leadership that is focused on the relational, ethical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of a group and its members (Eva et al., 2019). Basically, these dimensions are focused on the well-being of the healthcare providers as well as their own personal growth. This means that servant leadership invests in the core elements of staff satisfaction, therefore creating a healthcare workforce that will, in turn, be more effective and focused on the healthcare goals of the patients and patients. Therefore, servant leadership creates an environment that prioritizes personal well-being and growth necessary for collaboration at the interdisciplinary levels.

References

Eva, N., Robin, M., Sendjaya, S., van Dierendonck, D., & Liden, R. C. (2019). Servant Leadership: A systematic review and call for future research. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(1), 111–132. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.LEAQUA.2018.07.004

Kiwanuka, F., Nanyonga, R. C., Sak-Dankosky, N., Muwanguzi, P. A., & Kvist, T. (2021). Nursing leadership styles and their impact on intensive care unit quality measures: An integrative review. Journal of Nursing Management, 29(2), 133–142. https://doi.org/10.1111/JONM.13151

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Peer Response 1

The quality of patient care and patient outcomes are the most crucial elements for healthcare bodies around the globe. To achieve positive patient outcomes, considerable interdisciplinary cooperation among healthcare practitioners is requisite in all healthcare organizations. Healthcare systems require nurse leaders who can manage uncertainty and complexity and enhance transparency while prioritizing the needs of families and patients. Notably, it also presents various leadership styles, including servant leadership, which requires nurse managers to include the entire healthcare team in decision-making. This leadership style focuses on empowering and determining the needs of staff members to promote individual development.

Peer Responses-Quality Patient Care and Better Patient Outcomes

The servant leadership tenets strike a chord with many nurse leaders in the healthcare system. The leadership style principles include empathy, healing, persuasion, conceptualization, and listening (Halonen & Riivari, 2022). As a clinician, I will place the patients’ financial, emotional, and physical needs first since they’re the moral aspect of servant leadership. In addition, the overlapping of patient-centered communication with servant leadership would help build trust between the nurses and the patients. I would also promote change in a patient’s health behavior by enabling nurses to create a positive patient environment. Determining factors such as relatedness, autonomy, and competence will facilitate the behavioral change of the patients. Further, I will encourage teamwork among all members of the staff. Teamwork is a crucial element of care delivery in which all healthcare professionals are committed to prioritizing the interests of the patients (Cottey & McKimm, 2019).

By helping other staff members pursue and achieve quality care, I will encourage innovation throughout the facility, for instance, by providing innovative medical equipment technology, new treatments, and efficient medical procedures. Ensuring that all healthcare providers achieve their goals through servant leadership will increase the equation value of the patient and enhance patient outcomes, safety, and services within the organization.

References

Cottey, L., & McKimm, J. (2019). Putting service back into health care through servant leadership. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 80(4), 220-224.

Halonen, K., & Riivari, E. (2022). Servant Leadership in a Nordic Healthcare Organization. Palgrave Handbook of Servant Leadership.