Improving Health Outcomes, Patient-Centered Care, and Patient Experience through Leadership Strategies

Improving Health Outcomes, Patient-Centered Care, and Patient Experience through Leadership Strategies

The leadership strategies that can improve health implications, patient-targeted care, and patient experiences can include transformational leadership. In this leadership style, the leaders motivate others to attain the desired goals by instilling a vision (Chua & Ayoko, 2019). The group of active smokers can be led by this leadership strategy and promote smoking cessation among them by providing support and inspiration in overcoming addiction. Moreover, it promotes self-efficacy and empowerment, improving behaviors toward quitting smoking (Wunderlich, 2020).

Ultimately, it results in improved health outcomes. Similarly, by motivating the affected individuals, healthcare professionals can promote patient-centered care as their preferred care treatment, such as pharmacological or non-pharmacological interventions to overcome smoking addiction (Manning & Mattio, 2022). This leadership also improves the patient experience as the affected people will enable self-care behaviors and receive patient-centered care, such as customized smoking cessation plans and supportive care (Nnate et al., 2021).

Need for Leadership, Communication, Collaboration, and Change Management

Smoking cessation is a challenging population health problem that requires an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, psychologists, and counselors to establish a tobacco-free community. Therefore, healthcare organizations must adopt a leadership style that best suits their interest (Wunderlich, 2020). Likewise, smoking cessation requires open communication and collaboration on behavior changes and overcoming cravings. With open and transparent communication, active smokers can be able to share their struggles and efforts on smoking cessation. Furthermore, teaching a change management strategy such as Kotters’ 8-step Change Model (KCM) can drive a sense of urgency among patients to quit smoking and improve their healthy lifestyle to prevent future deadly complications (Moyo et al., 2023).

I have documented the two practicum hours spent with the group of boys in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.

Conclusion

A group of young boys were admitted to the hospital due to emphysema, and their history of smoking tobacco was revealed. However, the group wanted to quit smoking and improve health outcomes. The nursing interventions substantiated by evidence included training programs on smoking cessation, online education and support, and connecting smokers with smoking cessation programs by community support groups. The ANA and ALA have provided standards for preventing tobacco use and promoting smoking cessation programs. Transformational leadership is vital to improving health outcomes, delivering patient-centered care to smokers, and enhancing their experience.

References

American Lung Association. (n.d.). Public policy position – tobacco and health. Www.lung.org. https://www.lung.org/policy-advocacy/public-policy-positions/public-policy-position-tobacco