NURS 4455 Nurse Managers Assignment
NURS 4455 Nurse Managers Assignment
For Maximum points, you must respond to all 3 questions.
What style of leadership do you work best under?
What leadership style best describes your present or former managers?
Why is it important for nurse managers to have a clear understanding of their predominant leadership style?
What are Nurse Managers?
Abstract
Nurse Managers have the unenviable responsibility of ensuring that nursing staff are
engaged and perform their duties to the best of their abilities. Maintaining an
environment conducive to maximizing nurses’ potentials resulting in retention may be a
by-product of an effective leadership style. The purpose of this study was to determine
whether nurse managers’ leadership styles have an impact on nurses’ intent to turnover.
Nurse Managers with more than one year of management experience were asked to
complete the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-5X). The 45-item
questionnaire rates the participant’s leadership style based on the answers provided.
Results were then compared to the nurses’ intent to turnover scores taken from the Avatar
Associate Engagement Survey conducted in March 2014. The overall nursing intent to
turnover score was 41% while the best in class nursing score was 34% when compared to
the AVATAR national database. For the purposes of this study, a score of 40% and
below were categorized as below the norm or the better score.
Keywords: leadership styles, intent to turnover
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Acknowledgements
This entire experience has given me the opportunity to learn and grow as an
individual and as a professional.
I would like to thank my loving wife, Myra, for all the support she has given me
and for ensuring that our two children, Marc and Josef, were given the care and attention
that they needed. I would also like to express my gratitude to the following: Bobby
Steed, Data Quality Manager, whose wealth of knowledge in statistics came in very
handy; Marsha Carpenter from the Quality Department for helping me with the survey
tool; Betty Warlick, MSN, RN and Tim Fagan, MSN, RN for being great resources
during the IRB process; my thesis advisor Tracy Arnold, DNP who always gave timely
and sound advice; and above all, my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for giving me the
strength and courage to do this along with my other challenges in life.
