Exploring the Relationship Between Self-awareness in Nurse Managers and the Nurse Manager and Staff Nurse Perceptions
Peter Rodney1, Kathleen Evanovich Zavotsky, Mary T Quinn Griffin
1Author Affiliations: Vice President (Dr Rodney), Perioperative Services, Manhattan Campuses, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York; System Senior Director of Nursing Research and Program Evaluation (Dr Zavotsky), NYU Langone Health, New York, New York; Assistant Provost for Outcome Assessment and Accreditation (Dr Griffin), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; The May L. Wykle Endowed Professor and Associate Dean for Global Affairs, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Research Coordinator/Data Analyst (Bass), NYU Langone Health, New York, New York; and Director of Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy and Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing (Dr Fitzpatrick), Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and Distinguished University Professor (Dr Fitzpatrick), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Objective:
This study explores the relationship between nurse managers' self-awareness and their perceptions of a healthy work environment and clinical nurses' perceptions of a healthy work environment.
Background:
Nurse managers are pivotal in leading nurses in healthcare institutions. Understanding nurse managers' self-awareness is important in creating a healthy work environment for the staff they serve.
Methods:
This was a descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional design with 46 nurse managers and 62 clinical nurses in an academic health system.
Results:
There was a positive relationship between nurse managers' level of self-awareness and clinical nurses' perceptions of a healthy work environment, and a strong positive relationship between the perceptions of a healthy work environment between the 2 groups.
Conclusion:
These results can be used to tailor a leadership development program for nurse managers and could be duplicated in other environments.
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