Nursing Question - Strategic Leadership/Strategies - 300 word post

Required reading from Week 5 Lesson

This new era is marked by three system levels within the healthcare organization. Each system level requires new adaptive responses from healthcare leaders and providers to create an optimal culture for patient- centered care as well as strong leadership to maintain an environment conducive to quality care (Sherwood & Barnsteiner, 2012).

Macrosystem – This system level is the highest level representing the entire organization and led by executive senior leaders such as the CEO, chief nurse officer, chief financial officer, and chief operations officer.

Mesosystem – The second level represents the major divisions within the healthcare organization such as the department of nursing, department of medicine, and clinical service programs such as women's health programs, oncology, neuroscience and orthopedics. The mesosystem is managed by nurse managers and directors.

Microsystem – The inner core level of the healthcare organization is represented by patient care units where patients, their families, and care teams meet to create a collaborative approach to care delivery. The microsystem is where frontline staff provide clinical care (Sherwood & Barnsteiner, 2012).

System Leadership Perspective

When creating change, a healthcare leader must consider the implications of how any change in one part of the system will affect the entire system. A healthcare leader that assumes the systems perspective and keeps focused on how all the parts within the systems structure are operating and influencing each other, will create successful change. Reflect about your own experience when something a coworker did had unexpected consequences that compromised your ability to efficiently deliver patient care or complete your work. Such an outcome is an example of the system process at work, where the actions of one individual may resonate throughout the entire organizational setting.

Within any system, at any level, leaders are concered with quality and fostering a culture that focuses quality. As the ad use to say "Quality is job one!" There are six values associated with the system leadership perspective regarding a quality culture. These principles are based on a realistic awareness of what the systems perceptive consists of.

Strategic Leadership

Strategic leadership demonstrates shared accountability at the meso and macro system levels. Strategic leaders translate knowledge into action and enable everyone within a healthcare organizational structure, from leaders to staff members and clinicians, to be committed to and understand performance goals and their purposeful role in achieving them. When this process is interwoven into the fabric of daily practice, problems can be identified and corrected much earlier. Strategic leaders foster positive cultural and organizational change. This type of leadership drives organizational transparency as well as quality-driven success. Strategic leaders demonstrate their success by having foresight, visioning short- and long-term outcomes, partnering with key stakeholders, and motivating their employees (Burke, 2013). Key to strategic leadership are the characteristics of foresight, visioning, partnering, motivating.

Reference:

Chamberlain College of Nursing. (2017). NR-504 Week 5: Understanding Strategic Leadership [Online lesson]. Downers Grove, IL: DeVry Education Group.