Mcdowell-Williams Caring Leadership Model Analysis
The McDowell-Williams Caring Leadership Model will serve, in conjunction with an authentic leadership model as examples for the Informal Caring Leader Model. The McDowell-Williams Caring Leadership Model is based on the Watson (2008) theory of human caring and Kouzes and Posner (2012) leadership theory, and was developed and implemented by Judy McDowell and Randy Williams, at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC in 2009, in response to a shortage of nursing managers and the leadership capacity to train new ones (Williams, McDowell, & Kautz, 2011). The authors state each day, health care touches individuals’ lives on a human level, and most when they are vulnerable, and describe it as being heart-centered and authentically in