System and organizational leadership is essential in achieving positive patients’ outcomes by improving the quality and safety of clinical services (AACN, 2011). As such, when sound leadership is in place, it ensures effective and efficient working relationships and collaborations throughout a health organization are enhanced and fostered to meet the needs of the patients. This is because when sound leadership is in place, it will ensure there is respectful communication, delegation, and care coordination. In addition, it puts great emphasis on ethical behavior in the workplace. Therefore, when there is good nursing leadership, it will create space for dialogue and awareness, especially on the existing complex systems, politics, policies, and impact of power on the nursing practice. This awareness will help practitioners in a particular health facility make sound decisions based on the available resources and policies. A health organization needs to have baccalaureate graduates who are capable of making sound decisions that can address challenges the facility is facing as it strives to meet the desires of patients and caregivers (AACN, 2011). As such, graduates ought to understand the concept of quality and safety of clinical practices and the impact they have on the patients’ well-being. This knowledge will help nurses to participate in quality improvement initiatives. The Essential II elaborates how the baccalaureate program can meet these needs since it offers graduates good decision-making skills on how to improve quality and utilize sound communication techniques. Additionally, this baccalaureate program instills nurses with leadership skills that enable them to advocate for factors that bring out the culture of compassionate and empathy in service delivery. From my perspective, this baccalaureate program has addressed well the idea of leadership and improvement of health services. Notably, for high quality and patient’s safety to be realized, there must be sound leadership and an environment that advocates for collaboration among practitioners. Moreover, the baccalaureate graduates must be in a position to address the requirements of the ever-changing healthcare system. Quality improvement mechanisms change with time and this call on health care providers to be ready and cope with the changes to meet the desires of patients.
References
AACN. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/education-resources/MastersEssentials11.pdf
