Head Nurses’ Coaching Leadership Behaviors and Staff Nurses’ Cohesion at Tanta University Main Hospital

El-sheikh, Mona Awad; Abo Gad, Reda Abd El-Fattah; Abou- Ramadan, Amal Hamdy

doi:10.21608/tsnj.2025.443107

Head Nurses’ Coaching Leadership Behaviors and Staff Nurses’ Cohesion at Tanta University Main Hospital

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Master student of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt. 2Head Nurse at Damanhur Fever Hospital, Egypt.

² Professor Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt.

³ Assistant Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt

10.21608/tsnj.2025.443107

Abstract

Background: Coaching as a leadership approach is a powerful vehicle to enhance
staff nurses’ cohesion as it supports teamwork by the provision of a framework
for conversation and therefore enhancing communication, focusing and clarifying
participated goals, developing trust, collaboration and achieving collective
outcomes. Aim: Assess the relation between head nurses' coaching leadership
behaviors and staff nurses' cohesion. Design: A descriptive correlational design
was used. Setting: The present study was carried out at Tanta University Main
Hospital. Subjects: include all (N=35) available head nurses and a simple random
sample (n=260) of staff nurses. Tools: two tools were used to collect data;
coaching leadership behaviors’ and staff nurses’ cohesion structured
questionnaires. Results: More than two thirds (68.6%) of head nurses had high
level of coaching leadership behaviors. While, the majority (83.5%) of staff
nurses perceived that head nurses had low level. As well as, more than half (55%)
of staff nurses had low level of cohesion and more than forty (45%) of them had
moderate level. Conclusion: There was a significant positive correlation between
head nurses' coaching leadership behaviors and staff nurses' cohesion.
Recommendation: Developing activities and events that strengthen the head
nurses and staff nurses' relationships and create a sense of belonging to the
organization, designing and implementing continuous training programs for
encouraging and increasing knowledge about coaching leadership behaviors and
taking into account factors that can either strengthen or weaken group cohesion.