Relation between Head Nurses' Resilience Level Skill and Their Empowering Behavior

Background: Head nurses in specialty areas as the intensive care unit are susceptible to work-place stress due to facing many challenges, that make head nurses have to create work place that is optimal for the provision of nursing care by motivating, resilience and empowering their nurses. Therefore, it is important for head nurse to be resilient and able to show the leader behaviors that empowers their staff nurses. Aim: This study aimed to assess the relation between head nurses' resilience level skill and their empowering behavior. Subject and method: Descriptive correlational research design used in the study. The study was conducted at Tanta University Hospitals at different Intensive Care Units. The study subject: Consisted of 40 head nurses and 250 staff nurses working in the same setting. Tools: Two tools were used to collect the data. Tool I: Head Nurses' Resilience Levels Skills Structured Questionnaire. Tool II: Staff Nurses' Perception Regarding Head Nurses' Empowering Behavior Questionnaire. Results: Around two thirds of head nurses had high level of overall resilience skills and the staff nurses reported that near to half of their head nurses had high level of overall empowering behavior. Conclusion: There were statistically positive correlations between overall head nurses' resilience skills and staff nurses' perception regarding head nurses' empowering behavior. Recommendations: Nursing organization reinforce head nurses' resilience skills and keep the progress of empowering behavior, through emphasize on using coaching empowering behavior as an effective approach to support head nurses in a variety of positions. Also, building resilience skills and in head nurses through attending workshops and in-service training which improve head nurses' selfefficacy and improve patient care outcomes.So, it is important to introduce resilience training in the nursing curricula to empower nurses and equip them to handle the adverse working conditions they will experience in the nursing profession