Leadership Theory in the Dental Hygienist (Annotated Bibliography Sample)

Leadership Theory in Dental Hygiene
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Notgarnie, H. (2012). Clinical leaders. [online] Retrieved from:
/articles/print/volume-32/issue-5/features/clinical-leaders.html [Accessed: 3 Dec 2013].
Dental hygiene leadership may improve the quality of health care. There are some weaknesses in relationship between health professionals and patients. There are narrow roles health care educations. As leaders, dental hygienists educate patients to take an active role in their health. A dental hygienist ensures availability of resources and planning of treatment. A leader must understand and respond to implications. Dental hygienists are information managers. There functions are information managers are to correct individualized data, define problems, and identify solutions. A dental hygienist must choose his or her clients wisely. Conflict within a friendly relationship results in sharing and building results in sharing and building a knowledge base as contributors cooperates and pick up one another’s style. Trait approach theory is a systematic attempt to study leadership. Traits are studied to determine what makes certain people great leaders. This gives the managers a clear understanding of the way they should change to improve their leadership. Second, the th...