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Leadership to improve nurse engagement and empowerment: evidences to improve the training of nurses
  1. Rosa García-Sierra1,2,3,4,
  2. Fermín Martínez-Zaragoza5,
  3. Jordi Fernández-Castro6
  1. 1 Research Support Unit Metropolitana Nord, Primary Care Research Institute Jordi Gol (IDIAPJGol), Mataró, Spain
  2. 2 Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona), Spain
  3. 3 Grup de Recerca Multidisciplinar en Salut i Societat (GREMSAS) (2017 SGR 917), Barcelona, Spain
  4. 4 Primary Care Group.Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), Badalona, Spain
  5. 5 Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche (Alicante), Spain
  6. 6 Departament de Psicologia Bàsica, Evolutiva i de l'Educació, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, (Barcelona), Spain
  1. Correspondence to Dr Rosa García-Sierra, USR Metropolitana Nord, IDIAP Jordi Gol, Mataró 08303, Spain; rgarciasi.mn.ics{at}gencat.cat

Abstract

Aim The objective of this study was to identify the key dimensions of transformational leadership that influence the promotion of engagement and structural empowerment in a population of nurses from different care settings.

Method A cross-sectional survey study asking about engagement, leadership style and structural empowerment was used. Descriptive and correlational statistics were applied followed by hierarchical regression. 131 nurses were recruited from a Spanish health organisation using random sampling.

Results Individualised consideration and intellectual stimulation were predictors of structural empowerment in a hierarchical regression of transformational leadership dimensions controlled by demographic variables (R2=0.467). In addition, intellectual stimulation was a predictor of engagement (R2=0.176).

Conclusion The results are the starting point for the design of an organisationwide educational intervention to increase the engagement of nurses and staff development.

  • management
  • engagement
  • leadership assessment
  • nurse
  • learning

Data availability statement

Data are available upon reasonable request.

https://doi.org/10.1136/leader-2021-000537

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Data are available upon reasonable request.

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Footnotes

  • Contributors RG-S and JF-C: substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; FM-Z: drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content. RG-S:guarantor.

  • Funding Grant SLT002/16/00283 from Pla Estratègic de Recerca i Innovació en Salut 2016-2020 of Generalitat de Catalunya.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.