الرسائل الجامعية
لقسم إدارة التمريض
تاريخ النشر 2021
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Nurse Managers' Authentic Leadership and Its Association with Quality of Care, Performance, and Intention to Leave Among Registered Nurses
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Safa'a Ali Allan
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Background: Nurse managers’ authentic leadership has been identified as a strong predictor of various nurse outcomes. However, the relationship of authentic leadership with quality of nursing care, staff performance, and intention to leave has yet to be established.
Aim: To examine the relationship of authentic leadership with quality of nursing care, nurse performance and nurses’ intention to leave their jobs.
Methods: A descriptive cross sectional correlational design was employed. A sample of 166 registered nurses working in a governmental hospital in Jordan was recruited. Data collection was performed using staff demographics questionnaire, Authentic leadership questionnaire (ALQ), Turn-over intention scale, Six dimensions of Nurse's Performance Scale and a Single-item Quality of care (QoC) scale.
Findings: The results showed a statistically significant positive correlation between dimensions of authentic leadership and quality of nursing care and staff performance, and a statistically significant negative correlation between dimensions of authentic leadership and intention to leave. Also, authentic leadership was independently associated with staff performance in the hierarchical regression analysis after controlling for demographic variables, where demographic variables accounted for 5 % of the variance in nurse's performance, while authentic leadership accounted for 3% additional variance above and beyond the 5 % accounted for age and marital status.
Conclusion: Results show the importance of adopting authentic leadership by nurse managers to foster high quality nursing care and performance and reduce staff intention to leave, and therefore, retaining expert staff.
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