Question

• How will you make effective decisions as a health care leader?
• What impact can your decisions have on the health care organization and the consumers it serves?

Answer 1

As a health care leader you can make effective decisions by having certain skills like communicating, listening, being flexible, having a vision, creative and innovative thinking, using learning from previous experiences.

Impact of decisions on health care organisations:

The worst thing that the leader can do is not make a decision, there is always a better decision than not making a decision.

A good decision will satisfy employees at the work place, it also develop good interpersonal relationships if decisions are made by group.

Failure in decision making can cause chaos among employees, interrupt overall production and efficiency of staff.

We can improve the health care services by prompt decision making

Impact of decisions on consumers:

Health care is fast paced, and every decision made by health care leader affects the wellbeing and potentiality of consumer. Health care leaders should design solutions to meet consumers needs on their terms.

By making good decisions we can gain confidence and trust from the consumer

Making a health care decision is not only about what provider want to but about what will complement a patient life circumstances