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The Relationship between Head Nurses' Inclusive Leadership and Nurses' Work Engagement

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Last updated: 20 Jan 2025

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 Background: Today's health care organization facie diversity of work place , which is a key challenge for leaders to enhance nurses' work engagement ; satisfy their basic needs for belongingness and uniqueness ; and encourage them to be more engaged in work. As well it creates a healthy work environment to support engagement. Design: A descriptive, correlational research design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: The study was carried out in all in-patient units (medical and surgical) and ICUs at Itay El Baroud General Hospital.  Subjects: Two groups of subjects were included; (a) All head nurses and their assistants (n=32), (b) Nurses were randomly selected (n=300). Tools: Two tools were used for data collection; inclusive leadership questionnaire and job engagement questionnaire. Results: There was positive highly statistical significant correlation between total head nurses' inclusive leadership and nurses' work engagement. Conclusion: There was positive highly statistical significant correlation between total head nurses' inclusive leadership and its dimensions and there was positive highly statistical significant correlation between nurses' work engagement and its dimensions. Recommendations: Introduce inclusive leadership style to nursing curriculum as the new style that suit the current work environment needs, conduct protocol between Faculty of Nursing Damanhour University and hospitals at El-Beheira Governorate to conduct workshops for nursing administrators to prepare them with the required knowledge and competencies to develop inclusive leadership abilities, implement mentorship program where more experienced nurses act as models and mentors to the new nurses in the profession to empower and motivate them to be engaged in their work, head nurses attend training programs, conferences and seminars about inclusive leadership styles, head nurses build belonging and authenticity in nursing staff by providing them with more authorities and responsibilities through applying delegation system, to encourage them to act in constructive and flexible manner and become role model for them and nurses attain and maintain positive workplace climate through working cooperatively and preserving team spirit.

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10.21608/ejhc.2025.405524

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Health care organization, Inclusive leadership, Job Engagement, Head Nurses, Nurses

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Hayam

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Abd El Aty Elgazar

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Demonstrator of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Damnhour University, Egypt

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Mabrouk Abd El Rahman

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Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Damnhour University, Egypt

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Eman

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Ismail Elksas

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Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Damnhour University, Egypt

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16

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1

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51995

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2025-03-01

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2025-01-16

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2025-03-01

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156

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174

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1687-9546

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3009-6766

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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The Relationship between Head Nurses' Inclusive Leadership and Nurses' Work Engagement

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20 Jan 2025