Leadership, management and governance in healthcare education

International Journal of Research Studies in Education
CollabWritive Special Issue
Volume 13 Issue 11

Available Online:  15 August 2024

Author/s:

Rosales, Liberty
Graduate School, Lyceum of the Philippines University – Batangas, Philippines (jun2liby@yahoo.com)

Abstract:

Healthcare education seeks to prepare students to be competent healthcare providers in the future. It provides theoretical and practical competencies to help students become ready for professions in the healthcare industry to deliver high-quality patient care and enhance health outcomes. This study aimed to find out the perspective of faculty members on leadership, management, and governance in healthcare education. The researcher utilized the descriptive research design and distributed the adapted questionnaires to 155 faculty member participants teaching healthcare courses such as Dentistry, Medicine, Medical Technology, Radiographic Technology, Physical Therapy, Nursing, Pharmacy, and others for second semester SY 2022-2023 from universities and colleges in Batangas City and in Cavite. A four-part instrument was adopted from Hinkin and Tracey (1999) on leadership, adapted from Urick and Bowers (2019) on management and from Alshaerb et al. (2017) on governance. The instrument was distributed through questionnaires and through google forms and data were tallied, encoded, and analyzed using different statistical tool. Results showed majority of the respondents belong to 21-30 years old, female, has been teaching for 1-10 years and are mostly teaching at the college of nursing. Majority of the statement in leadership were rated as strongly agree while in management, most of the statements were rated as always being done, all indicators in governance were rated as highly evident except one. It was found that there was a highly significant relationship between leadership, management, and governance in healthcare education. A management plan has been proposed to improve leadership, management, and governance in healthcare education.

Keywords: healthcare education, leadership, management, governance

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2024.24721

Cite this article:
Rosales, L. (2024). Leadership, management and governance in healthcare education. International Journal of Research Studies in Education, 13(11), 59-73. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2024.24721