Transformational Leadership Educational Bundle for Nursing Supervisors and Nurses in-Charges and its Impact on Clinical Performances of the Nurses in the Labour Room

Authors

  • Seeta Devi1 , Manisha Mistry1 , Poonam Yadav2 , MerlinSuli2 , Priya Kamble2

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v14i4.12226

Keywords:

Transformational Leadership, Educational Bundle , nursing supervisors, nurses in-charges , clinical performances, labour room

Abstract

Background: In the process of transformational leadership, leaders and followers have mutual understanding
and help each other to promote a higher levels of morale and motivation among them. Employees in the
organization take ownership of their roles and responsibilities and perform the work activities out of
expectation of the leaders, leaders describe only the goals and objectives of the organization.
Methodology: In this study quantitative research approach was used and one group pretest posttest quasi
experimental research design was used. The study conducted in the labour rooms of selected maternity
hospitals. The samples were nursing supervisors, nursing in-charges and nursing officers of the maternity
wards and participants were chosen by adopting convenient sampling technique. Structured questionnaire
was used, one tool consisted of 20 questions regarding knowledge on transformational leadership and
another tool comprised of clinical performance evolution check list. Tools were validated by the experts
and reliability values includes Cronbach’s alphas were r= 0.88, & 0.96 for knowledge transformational
leadership and nurses’ job performance evaluation respectively.
Results: Majority of the nursing officers were falling under the category of age between 26 to 30 years.
Around 62 % of the nursing officers have an experience of 6 to 10 years. Majority of the nursing officers
have completed GNM qualification. About 40 % of the nursing supervisors and nursing in charges have
completed BSc Nursing qualification. In pretest, majority of supervisors and in charges have poor knowledge
regarding transformational leadership while in post test77 % of subjects gained the good knowledge. In
posttest majority of the nursing officers were competent in establishing the expected behavior of leaders,
maintaining nursing process model, providing quality of the care and adequate information and education to
the patients and relatives as per the requirement.
Conclusion: It is concluded that, as transformational leadership is successful in many domains of health
care delivery system, and this study results showed that, using transformational is effectives labour room
and other maternity wards for successful maternal and newborn outcome.

Author Biography

  • Seeta Devi1 , Manisha Mistry1 , Poonam Yadav2 , MerlinSuli2 , Priya Kamble2

    1
    Asst. Professor, 2
    Tutor, Symbiosis College of Nursing, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune 411004

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Published

2020-10-29

How to Cite

Transformational Leadership Educational Bundle for Nursing Supervisors and Nurses in-Charges and its Impact on Clinical Performances of the Nurses in the Labour Room. (2020). Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 14(4), 3821-3829. https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v14i4.12226