Head Nurses’ Coaching Leadership Behaviors and Staff Nurses’ Cohesion at Tanta University Main Hospital

Abstract

Background: Coaching as a leadership approach is a powerful vehicle to enhancestaff nurses’ cohesion as it supports teamwork by the provision of a frameworkfor conversation and therefore enhancing communication, focusing and clarifyingparticipated goals, developing trust, collaboration and achieving collectiveoutcomes. Aim: Assess the relation between head nurses' coaching leadershipbehaviors and staff nurses' cohesion. Design: A descriptive correlational designwas used. Setting: The present study was carried out at Tanta University MainHospital. Subjects: include all (N=35) available head nurses and a simple randomsample (n=260) of staff nurses. Tools: two tools were used to collect data;coaching leadership behaviors’ and staff nurses’ cohesion structuredquestionnaires. Results: More than two thirds (68.6%) of head nurses had highlevel of coaching leadership behaviors. While, the majority (83.5%) of staffnurses perceived that head nurses had low level. As well as, more than half (55%)of staff nurses had low level of cohesion and more than forty (45%) of them hadmoderate level. Conclusion: There was a significant positive correlation betweenhead nurses' coaching leadership behaviors and staff nurses' cohesion.Recommendation: Developing activities and events that strengthen the headnurses and staff nurses' relationships and create a sense of belonging to theorganization, designing and implementing continuous training programs forencouraging and increasing knowledge about coaching leadership behaviors andtaking into account factors that can either strengthen or weaken group cohesion.