Head Nurses' Ethical Leadership and its Relation to Staff Nurses' Job Stress | ||
| Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 31, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 206-220 PDF (543.32 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/tsnj.2024.336956 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Fathia Soliman El Naggar1; , Safaa Mohamed El Demerdash2; mal Hamdy Abou Ramadan3 | ||
| 1Nurse Specialist, Itay El-Baroud General Hospital, El-Beheira, Egypt Researcher of Nursing Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt | ||
| 2Professor, Nursing Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt | ||
| 3Assisstant prof, Nursing Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Ethical leadership has special value and become the most important in handling the staff nurses ‘job stress. Aim of the study: To assess head nurses' ethical leadership and its relation to staff nurses' job stress. Subjects and Method: A descriptive-correlational design was used in this study. The study was conducted at Tanta University Main Hospital. The study subject: including all (27) head nurses and 241 staff nurses selected randomly from total (640). Two tools were used; Ethical Leadership structured questionnaire and job stress scale. Results: nearly half (48.1%) of the head nurses had high perception level of overall ethical leadership while, about one third (35.8%) of staff nurses had high of overall head nurses’ ethical leadership, and more than half (55.2%) of them had low level of the overall job stress. Conclusion: There was a significant negative correlation between staff nurses’ total perception of head nurses’ ethical leadership and their total job stress. Recommendations: Provide training programs for all nursing staff levels about ethical leadership and improve their perception about ethical leadership as the strategy to reduce staff nurses’ job stress. Prim importance attending in-service education programs on ethical leadership as the request for pre promotion for nursing management position | ||
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