Implementation of a Value Based Leadership Style

Question: Implementation of a Value Based Leadership Style when Tackling a Problem Relating to Breach of Code of Ethics for Residential Care. Answer: Code of ethics for residential care Based on the code of ethics and guide to ethical conduct for residential aged care, attending professionals are under obligation to care within expertise and qualification levels and in line with the current best practice (Finn et al., 2006). In a case involving residential aged care workers, a nurse called Louisa decided to give medication to her fellow coworker John at the expense of not giving the medication to a resident. This paper will identify a code of practice that Louisa breaches, elaborate on a leadership style that would remedy the situation and give an account of actions that a leader would take. It is worth noting that Louisa breaches the code of ethics for residential care that involves residents right to appropriate care stands. Louisa is a nurse and is well aware of the fact that by not giving Panadeine Forte, a pain medication only prescribed by doctors, to an elderly patient on the account that he/she refuses to take the drug amounts to a breach of the code of conduct for residential care. Rather than storing the medication and give it to the elderly patient at a different time, Louisa instead gives the medicine to her coworker John who is suffering from intense back pain. In tackling the problem in the case, a value based style of clinical leadership would be best. The value-based leadership style requires nurse leaders to employ empathy as they deal with patients (Glaber Kilpatrick, 2008). In essence, the value-based clinical leadership style needs nurses always to put their patients first. It appears that Louisa does not care if an elderly patient takes his/her pain medication and would much rather give the pain drug to her fellow worker. Her actions go against patient-centered care, and value-based leadership style is best suited to deal with the problem. In my opinion, Louisa is among the many private care nurses that careless of the elderly and treat them with less care for the simple reason that they are the end of life patients. Her decision to give medication to her coworker amounted to breach of conduct in her professional duties and the proper penalty befitting her mistake would have been immediate dismissal. But, it is much simpler and convenient to employ value-based leadership skills and educate Louisa on why she needs to value elderly patients with a strong emphasize on the fact that they are human beings and need the care and attention afforded to younger patients (Detering et al., 2010). As a valued based sort of leader, I would ask Louisa to firmly think about how she would want to receive treatment when she grows old and becomes an elderly patient living in an aged care home. My recommendation to Louisa is that she signs up for a short nursing course and apprise her skills on value-based patient care. Thus, the value based style of clinical leadership focuses on employing empathy and caring for elderly patients for the simple fact they are human beings and deserve a patient-centered sort of caring approach. References Detering, K. M., Hancock, A. D., Reade, M. C., Silvester, W. (2010). The impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly patients: randomised controlled trial.Bmj,340, c1345. Finn, J. C., Flicker, L., Mackenzie, E., Jacobs, I. G., Fatovich, D. M., Drummond, S., ... Sprivulis, P. (2006). Interface between residential aged care facilities and a teaching hospital emergency department in Western Australia.Medical Journal of Australia,184(9), 432. Graber, D. R., Kilpatrick, A. O. (2008). Establishing values-based leadership and value systems in healthcare organizations.Journal of health and human services administration, 179-197.