BMC Nurs. 2024 Jul 16;23(1):485. doi: 10.1186/s12912-024-02084-8.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: The nursing profession is undergoing rapid transformation, requiring innovation in management approaches and proactive behaviors among staff. Nurse Managers play a vital role through managerial innovation, but its impacts on intensive care nurses’ proactivity and locus of control remain underexplored.
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to assess the levels of Nurse Managers’ managerial innovation and relate it to proactivity behaviors and locus of control orientations among intensive care nurses.
METHODS: A cross-sectional correlational design was adopted, recruiting 242 intensive care nurses from Tanta University Hospital, Egypt. Participants completed standardized questionnaires measuring perceived managerial innovation, proactivity behavior, and locus of control.
RESULTS: Nurse Managers demonstrated moderately high innovation across all dimensions, especially in continuous learning and development (mean = 4.65) and advanced technology use (mean = 4.56). Nurses exhibited sound proactivity levels, particularly in adaptability (mean = 4.40) and planning (mean = 4.35). The majority of nurses showed an internal locus of control (64.5%). Managerial innovation had significant positive correlations with nurses’ proactivity (r = 0.45, p < 0.001) and internal locus of control (r = 0.42, p < 0.001). Regression analysis revealed age, gender, experience, education, and ICU type as significant predictors of proactivity and locus of control.
CONCLUSION: Innovative nursing leadership positively influences staff’s proactivity levels and perceived control over their practice. This underscores the vital role of nurse managers in creating empowering environments in intensive care.
PMID:39014395 | DOI:10.1186/s12912-024-02084-8
