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Wk9 Assignment -Healthcare Administrator Role

Wk9 Assignment -Healthcare Administrator Role

Wk9 Assignment -Healthcare Administrator Role

As a future leader in the field of health care administration, you may face many chronic health threats to various systems. As you work to combat these threats and ensure community wellness, you are likely to become an agent of social change. This objective may be more challenging and critical to achieve in matters such as health emergencies and outbreaks. For leaders, outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics elicit critical and timely attention to situations in health care administration.

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In this week’s article by Gostin, Lucey, & Phelan (2014), the authors highlight the challenges present with an Ebola epidemic on a global scale. Using this Learning Resource from this week as well as 2–4 additional resources you may find from the Walden Library, current events, etc., consider your leadership perspective during an outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic.
As you collaborate with your group, individually select one of the following leadership roles that would respond during this outbreak:

  1. Director, FEMA
  2. Director, CDC
  3. Governor of an afflicted state
  4. Incident Response Commander
  5. Response Leader, American Red Cross (or other nongovernmental organization)
  6. ***Health Care Administrator for a large medical center  (I HAVE SELECTED THIS ROLE)****

After selecting your leadership role, use a systems approach to work with your group to establish an immediate response in preventing another pandemic.
The Assignment—Part 1:Individual Case Analysis (1–2 pages):Based on the leadership role you selected for the Assignment, include the following:

  • A summary of the leadership challenges this leader would face in assuring the system changes necessary to be prepared for the next outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic
  • An explanation of how your leadership challenges as this leader relate to challenges of the other leaders listed above

Note: The leadership challenges that you describe should be those you would face as an individual in the role of your selected leader, rather than the functional challenges of the agency this individual leads.

The Assignment—Part 2:Group Case Study Analysis (2–3 pages):Then, using your leadership Assignment for the Case Study, collaborate with your colleagues to create a Group Case Study Analysis that includes:

  • An explanation of how the challenges identified in the individual case analyses collectively affect crisis response by the system and the individuals within it
  • An explanation of how transformational and transactional leaders might influence outcomes within this case
  • A summary of how poor leadership might affect the outcome of the case
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    WEEK 9 Reading Resources

     

    Nahavandi, A. (2015). The art and science of leadership (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

    · Chapter 6, “Current Era in Leadership” (pp. 178–201)

     

    Gostin, L.O., Lucey, D., & Phelan, A. (2014). The Ebola epidemic: A global health emergency. Journal of the American Medical Association, 312(11), 1095-1096.

     

     

    Melvyn R. W., Hamstra, N. W., Yperen, V., Wisse, B. & Sassenberg K. (2011). Leadership styles and followers’ regulatory focus fit reduces followers’ turnover intentions. Journal of Personnel Psychology , 10(4), 182–186.

     

     

    Lindebaum, D., & Cartwright, S. (2010). A critical examination of the relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership. Journal of Management Studies, 47(7), 1317-1342.

     

     

    Silvia, C., & McGuire, M. (2010). Leading public sector networks: An empirical examination of integrative leadership behaviors.The Leadership Quarterly, 21(2), 264-277.

     

     

    Weberg, D. (2010). Transformational leadership and staff retention: An evidence review with implications for healthcare systems. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 34(3), 246-258.

     

     

    Babou. (2008, August 4). Transactional leadership vs. transformational leadership. Leadership & Project Management Champions. Retrieved from http://leadershipchamps.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/transactional-leadership-vs-transformational-leadership/

     

    Gupta, A. (2009, June 29). Transformational leadership. Practical Management. Retrieved from http://www.practical-management.com/Leadership-Development/Transformational-Leadership.html

     

    Leadership-Central. (2015). Leadership theories. Retrieved from http://www.leadership-central.com/leadership-theories.html#axzz1dlH7YU4o

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    Case Study 2 – Part 1: Leadership Challenges as the CDC Director

     

    Examples of leadership challenges one would face as the director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in assuring the system changes implemented will help significantly to mitigate, if not prevent, the next Ebola outbreak would be communication and information/data management. To explicate, the CDC must partner and work with various, multidisciplinary organizations to coordinate public health education (including medical personnel), surveillance and reporting of suspected and/or active Ebola cases, and response teams in containing and preventing the spread of the disease. In the example of the Ebola case in Sierra Leone, researchers found several challenges the investigators encountered when conducting Ebola virus disease (EVD) investigations and they included the following: transportation, communication, data quality and management, personal safety and fatigue, and community trust (Boland, Polich, Connolly, Hoar, Sesay, & Tran, 2017). With numerous factors at play in preventing infectious disease outbreaks, the CDC director must be able to communicate effectively and utilize robust influential skills to mobilize and sync the efforts of multidisciplinary teams.

    The barriers that the CDC director face are no different than the leader in a different role and/or organization. The common denominator that all of these leaders have is that they all need to collaborate and work with others, whether in the form of vertical and/or horizontal leadership. To clarify, leaders must exercise versatility in being able to lead through influence and coaching by appreciating the work that all stakeholders in every level contribute to in solving systems, if not global, issues as it pertains to infectious disease outbreaks. As Robinson (2016) supported, leaders need to shift their paradigm by moving “beyond one set of leadership behaviors to increase flexibility in dealing with complex situations.” All in all, leadership challenges do not confine itself to a particular discipline.

     

    Reference

     

    Boland, S. T., Polich, E., Connolly, A., Hoar, A., Sesay, T., & Tran, A. A. (2017). Overcoming

    operational challenges to ebola case investigation in sierra leone. Global Health,

    Science and Practice, 5(3), 456-467. https://doi- org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00126

     

    Robinson, J. L. (2016). Connecting leadership and learning: Do versatile learners make

    connective leaders? Higher Learning Research Communications, 6(1). Retrieved from https://search-ebscohost- com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1132945&site=eds -live&scope=site