NS-Lij Leadership Style

Introduction The North Shore Long Island Jewish (North Shore LIJ) Health system is the largest health care organization in New York State with seventeen hospitals, three skilled nursing facilities, almost 400 ambulatory care practices. North Shore LIJ is the nation’s fourteenth largest health care institution and currently services the Long Island, Staten Island, Manhattan, and Queens areas. This includes five tertiary care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, seven community hospitals, and two affiliate hospitals. With a seven billion yearly operating budget, over 46,000 employees including more than 9440 physicians, more than 10,000 nurses, and more than 4,275 volunteers, NS-LIJ has a significant impact in the health promotion and well-being

This is essential to understand and needs to be taken into serious consideration because it is ultimately leaders who can effectuate positive change in any health care setting. There are many interrelated traits involved in effective leadership including intelligence, achievement drive, integrity, the development of ideas and vision, living by the values that support and foster those ideas and vision, and the ability to positively impact and influence others without coercion. These aforementioned traits and many other areas of clinical expertise are fundamental to attain and embrace in leadership

Hence, Guyton’s assertion of the nine essential principals involved in successful nursing leadership support Michael Dowling’s innovative leadership framework. Furthermore, Walsh & Walker (2013) propose that successful businesses require four distinct but interrelated leadership