Nurse Mangers Leadership Style and Staff Nurses Autonomy | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 46, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2019, Pages 620-633 PDF (234 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2019.243149 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Eman Ali Mohamed Ali Selim1; Harisa Mohamed Ali El-Shimy2; Nema Fathy Saad3 | ||
| 1B.Sc of Nursing, Nursing Administration Department - Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| 2Professor of Nursing Administration- Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt. Nursing Administration Department - Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| 3Assistant Professor of Nursing Administration- Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University-Cairo- Egypt. Nursing Administration Department - Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Nurse Manager's leadership style is very important for shaping a nurse's personality by motivating their staff and increasing their nurse autonomy, self- confidence, and decision-making. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between nurse managers' leadership styles and their staff nurse's autonomy. Subjects & Methods; Research design: a descriptive correlational design was used in carrying out this study, which was conducted at general Suez Hospital affiliated to the ministry of health and composed of seven buildings (emergency building, I.C.U and dialysis building, operating theater building, burns building and laparoscope building, obstetric building and outpatient clinic building). The study subjects were included in two groups namely: nurse managers group composed of 58 nurse managers and staff nurses group composed of 165 staff nurses. Tools: Two questionnaires were used to collect the data namely leadership style questionnaire for nurse manager and Autonomy questionnaire for staff nurses. Results: The study findings revealed that, fifty percent of studied nurse manager were transactional and the majority of the studied staff nurses had moderate level of autonomy regarding patient care, collaboration, patient education, handling patient complaints, diagnosis discharge decisions, and the related issue. Conclusion & Recommendation: Based on the study finding it concluded that, the majority of the studied staff nurse mangers had transactional leadership style and the majority of the studied nurse had moderate autonomy regarding to patient care, collaboration, patient education, handling patient complaints, diagnosis discharge decisions, and related issues. Hence, the study recommended that, development programs involve training, coaching and mentoring and needs to explore the barriers that nurse face in autonomous decision-making. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Autonomy; Leadership Style; Nurse Mangers; Staff Nurses | ||
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