Leadership in Health Care: Concepts and Skills for Effective Practice

Leadership in health care is the process of influencing and inspiring others to achieve a common goal of improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care services. Leadership in health care is essential for health care professionals, managers, policymakers, and researchers who want to understand the challenges and opportunities in the health care sector, and how to apply leadership principles and skills to address them. Leadership in health care is also a shared and collective responsibility, as it requires collaboration and coordination among different levels and types of leaders, as well as among different stakeholders and partners.

This course will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and skills of leadership in health care, and how they can be applied to real-world problems and cases. You will learn about the types and styles of leadership in health care, the role and rationale of leadership frameworks and models, the tools and techniques for leadership assessment and development, the methods and measures for leadership performance and improvement, and the best practices and examples of leadership in health care.