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Background: Sustainability in the social, economic, and environmental spheres is a challenge facing the globe today.Effective leadership is vital for fostering sustainable practices across society and organizations while driving economic growth.Nursing sustainable leadership emphasizes generating current and future profits for health organizations, enhancing organizational appeal, and advocating sustainability values at individual, organizational, and societal levels.Aim: Evaluate the effect of educational program about sustainable leadership for nursing managers on their sustainable development behaviors and organizational attractiveness: Design: A quasi-experimental research design was utilized.Setting: The study was conducted in all (36) units at Benha University Hospital located in Qaluobia Governate, Egypt.Sample: The total number of nursing managers was (110), which includes the following: (1) Nursing Director, (2) Assistant Nursing Director, (4) Supervisors, (36) Head Nurses, and (67) Assistant head nurses.Tools: The following four questionnaires were utilized; Firstly: Sustainable Leadership Knowledge, Secondly the Sustainable Leadership Practice Self-report Questionnaire, Thirdly: Sustainable Development Behaviours Questionnaire, and finally tool: Organizational Attractiveness Questionnaire.Result: About one-third (31.8%) of nursing managers had adequate knowledge total levels in the pre program phase while after implementing of the educational program it was raised to 68.2% and in follow up phase to 75.5%.Concerning to sustainable leadership practice 14.5% had good total levels of practice in pre program while in the immediate post and follow up program phases, it was improved and raised to (70.9% & 67.3%) respectively.Concerning to nursing managers' sustainable development behaviors 14.5% of nursing managers' had a high total levels in pre program while in immediate post and follow up phases, it enhanced and raised to (72.7% & 63.6%) respectively.Concerning organizational attractiveness as reported by nursing managers 17.3% had high level in pre program and raised to (68.2% & 63.6%) at immediate post and follow up phases respectively. Conclusion:The implementing of the educational program led to improve in knowledge and practice of nursing managers regarding to sustainable leadership.Additionally there was a statistically significant positive correlation between knowledge and practice of sustainable leadership scores with sustainable development behaviors and organizational attractiveness scores.Recommendation: Fostering organizational culture which contributes to the growth of the concept, goals and strategies of health care sustainability and sustainable leadership to maintain sustainable development behaviors and organizational attractiveness.and implementing health care sustainability and sustainable leadership goals, principals, core competencies, attributes and applications for enhancing standards and work capacity through periodic workshops.
Mahfouz et al. (Fri,) studied this question.