Background: The intensive care units needed first-line nurse managers with
managerial competencies to conduct changes in order to give staff nurses high-
quality care and achieve organizational outcomes, as well as encourage intensive
care nurses' job crafting. Aim: The present research aimed to investigate the
relation between first-line nurse managers' managerial competencies and intensive
care nurses' job crafting. Subjects and Method: Design: Descriptive correlational
research design used in the study. Setting: The study was conducted at Tanta
University Hospitals (Main and Emergency) at different Intensive Care Units.
Subject: Consisted of 57 first-line nurse managers and 218 staff nurses working in
the same setting. Tools: Two tools were used to collect data. Tool I:First-line
Nurse Managers' Managerial Competencies Questionnaire. Tool II: Intensive Care
Nurses' Job Crafting Questionnaire. Results: Around two thirds (67.6%) of
nursing staff perceived that first-line nurse managers had a high level of
managerial competencies, which the majority (87.7%) of them had a high level of
leadership dimension. Around one-third (32.1%) of the staff nurses had a high
level of intensive care nurses' job crafting, while, 55.5%of them had a moderate
level of task crafting dimension. Conclusion: There was a statistically significant
positive correlation between first-line nurse managers' managerial competencies
and intensive care nurses' crafting. Recommendations: Hospital administration
conducts continuous in-service training for first-line nurse managers that boosts
their managerial competencies and nurses for job crafting. Foster a trust
environment and organizational support to encourage the first-line nurse managers
to use their managerial competencies in an efficient manner.