Nurses opinions about the transformational leadership in hospitals of Pune city

Abstract

Transformational leadership in nursing is different from other industries. Nurses working pattern is different with different shift and many times they go through a lot of emotional changes with the patient care. Effective nursing leadership also engenders staff retention, job satisfaction, commitment, work unit climate and client satisfaction with the nursing care services provided to them .Transformational leadership globally plays a vital role in the health care system especially for patient care by nurses, because the performance of the staff nurses is directly linked to the leadership styles. Hence this study is aimed to assess the of nurses on transformational leadership style Methodology: ANon-Experimental Descriptive Research approach used. The study was conducted among various Hospitals of Pune City. The selection of the sample was based on easy geographical accessibility, cooperation and availability of samples .The sample size for the study was 95,selected by using non probability convenience sampling technique from various Hospitals of Pune City who met the inclusion criteria. A structured modified questionnaire was developed based on the research problem, to get the information from the samples. Result: The result of current study says 54.74%staff nurses given the opinion that their nurse supervisors are having average transformational leadership. 38.95% of staff nurses perception was their nurse supervisors are having good transformational leadership and 6. 32 % of staff nurses perception was their nurse managers are having poor transformational leadership qualities.The average score of staff nurses regarding their supervisor’s transformational leadership is 3.1 to 4.2. Out of the four domains Individualism got higher points (79.72%) than other and improvements of subordinates got the lowest ( 64.65%). Conclusion: The nursing leader transformational qualities in four main domain is analysed in this study. The overall competencies in nurse leaders analysed were knowledge, innovativeness, self-confidence, good communication skill, adaptability, teamwork, organisational skill etc. The result says that nurse managers are having average transformational leadership qualities.