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LEADS and the Health Professions

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This chapter describes how LEADS can serve as an antidote to some of the leadership challenges health professionals experience—including fragmented health care systems, limited engagement and burnout among staff, diversity and equity issues and demand for high quality leadership practice. We focused on physicians and nurses because together they are the majority of clinicians in the health system. We offer specific examples of how LEADS is being used by physicians and nurses as well as ideas for further use of the framework. However, we’re not giving prescriptive answers—instead inviting you to explore what you think is possible with LEADS.

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Van Aerde, J. (2020). LEADS and the Health Professions. In: Dickson, G., Tholl, B. (eds) Bringing Leadership to Life in Health: LEADS in a Caring Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38536-1_15

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