Leadership in Health Care

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Leadership in Health Care
Introduction
Leadership is one of the most valued skills in the world and that is especially the case for health care where the crisis of the nursing shortage is intersecting with a period of increasingly urgent need for care by the elderly. The central issue in the interview is related to improvements in quality of care and this problem is also one of the pivotal leadership struggles (
Leatt
& Porter, 2005). The interview indicates how strong leadership is essential and can produce an important impact on the implementation and continuation of strategic change (Block & Manning, 2007). This paper will also show how various key ideas and theoretical concepts apply for the interviewee’s experience. Beginning...

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