title: Leadership style for facilitating the integration of culturally appropriate health care.
abstract: The dramatic and rapid changes occurring in health care present many challenges and opportunities for nurse leaders as they deal with a culturally diverse society. Leadership style is an important consideration for a health care environment that promotes culturally appropriate care. This article presents a theoretical model that consists of management of change, principle-centered leadership, and transformational leadership, and describes how each of these concepts can assist in creating an environment that fosters culturally appropriate health care.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912, USA.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Nugent
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*