Transformational Leadership Style

Due to metaphoric nature of healthcare system, it is significant to encourage leaders to adopt a transformational leadership style, which is flexible for changes. Transformational leadership style recognizes the areas in which requires changes. Transformational leader must have a vision and should be able to communicate effectively to his followers. This type of leaders guide change by inspiring supporters and creating a sense of commitment. By assuming the qualities of transformational leadership style, leaders will be more comfortable and confident when suggesting a change in healthcare policies (Smith, 2011). Transformational leaders trust his or her employees and give them room for doing their job in their way. This type of environment is conducive to the positive change. Due to competitive nature of leader’s market, leaders have to develop internally. Healthcare organization should attempt to identify and groom its leaders based on their experience and talents. Such individuals may be physicians, and nurses may act as leaders in their facility. When a leader

VBP forces health care organizations to decrease their improper care and identifies the best performers. It is expensive to adopt a value-based purchasing model in an organization since this will not be reimbursable. For ensuring the fiscal sustainability, there is a need for transformational leaders such as nurse leaders with talents and competence who can reduce costs in medical errors and be ensuring evidence-based care (Sanford, 2011). Evidence-based management is incorporating recent research findings in their practice during managerial decision-making. Therefore, it is important for a leader to be a transformational leader, who can adapt to the changes and addresses ‘how’ and ‘why’ of specific clinical changes (Sherman,