PMID- 24350195 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20140624 LR - 20211021 IS - 2296-2565 (Print) IS - 2296-2565 (Electronic) IS - 2296-2565 (Linking) VI - 1 DP - 2013 Aug 12 TI - Application of situational leadership to the national voluntary public health accreditation process. PG - 26 LID - 10.3389/fpubh.2013.00026 [doi] LID - 26 AB - Successful navigation through the accreditation process developed by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) requires strong and effective leadership. Situational leadership, a contingency theory of leadership, frequently taught in the public health classroom, has utility for leading a public health agency through this process. As a public health agency pursues accreditation, staff members progress from being uncertain and unfamiliar with the process to being knowledgeable and confident in their ability to fulfill the accreditation requirements. Situational leadership provides a framework that allows leaders to match their leadership styles to the needs of agency personnel. In this paper, the application of situational leadership to accreditation is demonstrated by tracking the process at a progressive Kentucky county public health agency that served as a PHAB beta test site. FAU - Rabarison, Kristina AU - Rabarison K AD - College of Public Health, University of Kentucky , Lexington, KY , USA. FAU - Ingram, Richard C AU - Ingram RC AD - College of Public Health, University of Kentucky , Lexington, KY , USA. FAU - Holsinger, James W Jr AU - Holsinger JW Jr AD - College of Public Health, University of Kentucky , Lexington, KY , USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20130812 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Public Health JT - Frontiers in public health JID - 101616579 PMC - PMC3856673 OTO - NOTNLM OT - accreditation OT - leadership OT - public health accreditation OT - situational leadership OT - student training EDAT- 2013/12/19 06:00 MHDA- 2013/12/19 06:01 PMCR- 2013/08/12 CRDT- 2013/12/19 06:00 PHST- 2013/06/05 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/07/31 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/12/19 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/12/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/12/19 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2013/08/12 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fpubh.2013.00026 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Public Health. 2013 Aug 12;1:26. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2013.00026.