ArticleJournal of advanced nursing2025
Authentic Nursing Leadership and Safety Climate Across Hospital Settings During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study.
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- Integral nursing leadership and its association with job satisfaction and turnover intention among nurses: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Global Perspectives on Patient Safety: The Central Role of Nursing Management.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Safety performance behaviors of hospital nurses from the perspective of social cognition theory.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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aimTo analyse the relationship between authentic nursing leadership and safety climates across hospital settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
backgroundAuthentic nursing leadership shapes the safety climate by fostering positive perceptions of workplace policies, processes, procedures and practices that influence how safety is prioritised and addressed within an organisation.
designA cross-sectional study.
methodsOur study was conducted from December 2021 to December 2022 in six Brazilian hospitals. Participants were nursing staff working in General Medicine Units, Intensive Care Units (ICU) and Emergency Departments (ED) who provided care to patients with COVID-19. The Authentic Leadership Questionnaire and the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire were used to measure nursing staff perceptions of authentic leadership and safety climates. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
results391 nursing staff across six hospitals participated. Self-awareness significantly enhanced perceptions of the safety climates. Additionally, being a Registered Nurse and working in the ICU were positively associated with achieving safe climates in the working environment. In contrast, working in EDs was significantly negatively related to safety climates.
conclusionsThe COVID-19 pandemic underscored a lack of authentic nursing leadership and unsafe climates. Therefore, it is critical to implement educational strategies that foster authentic leadership, particularly focusing on self-awareness, to promote more positive safety climates. Ensuring that leadership and safety climates are relationship-focused is critical to enhancing patient outcomes. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PROFESSION AND/OR PATIENT CARE: Nursing staff's perceptions of authentic leadership and safety climates are important in making more informed decisions about patient management. IMPACT: Since self-awareness increases positive perceptions of safety climates, nursing staff should exercise it to guide their actions in facing future health crises. REPORTING
methodSTROBE guidelines. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: Higher self-awareness in relationships with others is a predictor of safety climates and can lead to enhanced patient outcomes.
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