Head Nurses’ Power Sources and Its Effect on Staff Nurses’ Administrative Empowerment and Creativity

Background: Nursing profession requires strong effective nursing leaders to establish a healthywork environment through exercising various forms of power sources to influence their staffnurses and encourage their administrative empowerment and creativity. Aim: Study head nurses’power sources and its effect on staff nurses’ administrative empowerment and creativity.Methods: Descriptive correlational design was used. Setting & Subjects: All (n=275) staffnurses working in the Intensive Care Units at Tanta University International Teaching Hospital.Tools: Three tools were utilized for data collection, Head Nurses Power Sources, AdministrativeEmpowerment, and Administrative Creativity Scale. Results: The highest mean score of staffnurses’ perception about head nurses’ power sources was legitimate power followed by reward,expert, referent power and lastly the lowest mean score was coercive power. Also, most of staffnurses perceived a moderate level of administrative empowerment and creativity. Conclusion:There was a statistically significant positive correlation between head nurses’ power sources(legitimate, reward, expert and referent power) except coercive power had negative correlationwith staff nurses' administrative empowerment and creativity. Recommendations: According tothe findings, hospital administration need to maintain continuous offering staff development andtraining program to enforce head nurses leading role to be able to enhance their staff nurses’administrative empowerment and creativity.