Exploring the Relationship Between Self-awareness in Nurse Managers and the Nurse Manager and Staff Nurse Perceptions of Healthy Work Environments.

This study explores the relationship between nurse managers' self-awareness and their perceptions of a healthy work environment and clinical nurses' perceptions of a healthy work environment. Nurse managers are pivotal in leading nurses in healthcare institutions. Understanding nurse managers' self-awareness is important in creating a healthy work environment for the staff they serve. This was a descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional design with 46 nurse managers and 62 clinical nurses in an academic health system. There was a positive relationship between nurse managers' level of self-awareness and clinical nurses' perceptions of a healthy work environment, and a strong positive relationship between the perceptions of a healthy work environment between the 2 groups. These results can be used to tailor a leadership development program for nurse managers and could be duplicated in other environments.