Collaborative Leadership

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1. The driving forces behind the success of this collaborative effort were teamwork, communication, commitment, shared responsibility, and wanting to provide care that is more patient centered. All of these forces worked together to reach the goal of reducing the time a patient is in the ED. Dr. Tony leadership abilities also contributed to the success of this effort by taking on this challenge and determining what stakeholders are necessary in this process. His idea to address this problem through collaborative leadership worked successfully.

2. The "boundaries" that posed challenges to this collaborative effort were the lack of cross department communication, work processes that slowed the process down, and Dr. Tony's lack of certain authorities.