School of Nursing, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
Clinical Excellence and Nursing Research, Florida Hospital, Orlando, Florida, USA.
J Nurs Manag. 2018 May;26(4):358-365. doi: 10.1111/jonm.12509. Epub 2018 Apr 22.
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of staff nurse emotional intelligence between transformational leadership and nurse intent to stay.
Nurse intent to stay and transformational leadership are widely recognized as vital components of nurse retention. Staff nurse emotional intelligence that has been confirmed improvable has been recently recognized in the nursing literature as correlated with retention. Yet, the nature of the relationships among these three variables is not known.
Cross-sectional data for 535 Chinese nurses were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling.
Transformational leadership and staff nurse emotional intelligence were significant predictors of nurse intent to stay, accounting for 34.3% of the variance in nurse intent to stay. Staff nurse emotional intelligence partially mediates the relationship between transformational leadership and nurse intent to stay.
The findings of the study emphasized the importance of transformational leadership in enhancing nurse emotional intelligence and to provide a deeper understanding of the mediating role of emotional intelligence in the relationship between nurse manager's transformational leadership and nurse's intent to stay.
Nurse leaders should develop training programmes to improve nursing manager transformational leadership and staff nurse emotional intelligence in the workplace.
本研究旨在探讨护士长情绪智力在变革型领导与护士留职意愿之间的作用。
护士留职意愿和变革型领导被广泛认为是护士留用的重要组成部分。最近在护理文献中已经确认，可提高的护士情绪智力与留用率相关。然而，这三个变量之间的关系性质尚不清楚。
使用结构方程模型对 535 名中国护士的横断面数据进行分析。
变革型领导和护士长情绪智力是护士留职意愿的显著预测因子，占护士留职意愿变异的 34.3%。护士长情绪智力部分中介了变革型领导与护士留职意愿之间的关系。
研究结果强调了变革型领导在提高护士情绪智力方面的重要性，并深入了解了护士长的变革型领导与护士留职意愿之间的关系中情绪智力的中介作用。
护理管理者应制定培训计划，以提高护理管理者的变革型领导能力和护士在工作场所的情绪智力。
