Leadership

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Leadership Accountability

• Foundations of Health Science
• CScroggins, MSN, RN

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Questions

• What is accountability?
• To whom are HCP accountable?

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Question

• How do HCP demonstrate their accountability?

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Answers

• Documentation
• Provide care within Scope of Practice
• Maintain Competence
• Evaluate Outcomes Admit Mistakes

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What does Professional Accountablity Mean?

• Deliver care accdg. to Standards of Practice
• Practice under Code of Ethics
• Accept assignments for which you are trained
• Obtain knowledge to perform tasks

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Organizational Accountability

• Professional Members---Join together to
• promote and protect what we do
• Public service
• acting in the publics best interest.

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Leadership

• What characteristics does a good leader have??
• Discuss in your group be ready to present.

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Leadership Style

• A leaders behavior greatly influences the
• behavior of the group members.

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Autocratic Leader

• Maintains strong control
• Makes all decisions
• Solves all problems
• Dominates the group issues commands

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Democratic Leader

• Believes each group member should have input.
  Sees members as unique/valuable
• Collaborative c goal setting problem solving
• Facilitator
• Resource Person

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Laissez-Faire

• Passive Nondirective
• Inactive Approach
• Leadership Responsibility assumed by group
• No limitsgroup behavior may be uncontrolled
• Needs of group are ignored