Intent to Stay

HOIY AIYGEL UNI\TERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOT OF NURSING

First Trimester School Year 2012 - ²⁰¹³

Staff Nurses' Perception of Leadership Behaviors of Executive and Supenrisory

Nurse ^{Managers as a} Corelate ^to their Intent to ^Stay

A

sPECrAr ^PROIECT

Presented to the Graduate School Holy Angel University

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements forthe Degree Master of Science in Nursing Major in Adult Health Nursing

Byt

IJ'ZH. MI]LA

HOLY Ai\lGE l,

Ullr

I.-RSIT Y

Staff Nurses' Perception of Leadership Behaviors of Executive and Supenrisory

Nurse Managers ^{as a} Corelate to their Intent to ^Stay

Liz H. Mula

Abstract

With the

large

number of nursing

graduates

who

are unemployed, nursing shortage

is not very much of a

problem

in the

Philippines;

however, due

to the

increased

rate of

nurse

tunlover

as nurses flee abroad

after gaining a

^yeao.

or fwo of hospital

experience

in

the Philippines, we are

hcing

the challenge of competent nurse shortage as

competent nurses are replaced by novice ones.

It

is therefore the aim

of

this study to

find

out

if

there is a relationship benveen the staff nurses' perception

of the

leadership behaviors

of

executive and supervisory nurse managers

and their intent to

stay.

A

correlation method was utilized

in

this study, involving 69 staffnurses in a govemment hoqpital

in

Angeles

City.

Data

were

gathered

over twenty

seven days from August 14,2A12

to

September

9,

2AI2,

usit8

the Leadership Behavior Assessment and NSCQ& NRI questionnaires. Data were analyzed using

the

Pearson correlation

with

0.05 as

the

level

of

significance. Results

showed that there was a moderately strong, positive

correlation between

the staff

nurses' perception

of the

leadership behaviors

of

executive

and

supervisory nurse managers

and their intent to

stay.

Specifically, learning, relationship and confidence behaviors

of

head nurses;

and

communication,

Iearning, flexibility, relationship,

and teamwork behaviors

of

charge nurses seem

to

have an effect

on

staff nurses' intent to stay.

Keywords: leadership behaviors,

intent to

stay, nursing m2nagement, nurse retention

E