A study to determine a relationship between staff nurse job satisfaction and staff nurse perceptions of head nurse leadership style
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A study of the relationship between staff nurse job satisfaction and staff nurse perceptions of head nurse leadership style was conducted at one teaching hospital in Rhode Island. A convenience sample of 69 staff nurses was obtained from the general medical-surgical units in this institution. Participants were asked to complete two questionnaires. The Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, a 20 item instrument, measures levels of satisfaction according to the following three scales: intrinsic satisfaction, extrinsic satisfaction and general satisfaction. Subjects also completed a 40 item Leadership Opinion Questionnaire which categorizes leader behaviors into two components, consideration or relation oriented behaviors and structure or task oriented behaviors. Frequencies were run and scores were computed to determine staff nurse levels of job satisfaction and staff nurse perceptions of head nurse leadership style. The Pearson correlation coefficient was used to analyze the data. Results showed that staff nurse satisfaction is significantly related to the consideration behaviors of the head nurse. This study was a partial replication of a previous research study (Duxbury, Armstrong, Drew and Henly, 1984) which measured the relationship between head nurse leadership style and staff nurse burnout and job satisfaction in neonatal intensive care units and the results were validated. Major conclusions drawn from this study include a need for head nurses to acquire the essential leadership and managerial skills necessary to function within the health care environment and the need for the concept of human care as the basis for nursing administration. Therefore, formal management training for head nurses is seen as essential to foster a work environment conducive to meeting the intrinsic and extrinsic needs of staff nurses.
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