PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to elucidate nursing performance to superior's ethical leadership as perceived by nurses and the mediating effect of faith in supervisor.
METHODS
For this study a descriptive survey design was used. Participants were 258 nurses who worked in general hospital and completed the self-report questionnaire. Data were collected from May 17 to May 31, 2017 and were analyzed using independent t-test, ANOVA, Scheffé test, and Path analysis with SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 21.0.
RESULTS
Superior's ethical leadership as perceived by the nurses and faith in the supervisor were significant variables predicting the level of nursing performance and accounted for 48.1% of the variance. Faith in the supervisor as a mediator was found to have a partial mediating effect.
CONCLUSION
In order to improve the nurses' performance, it is important to establish a work environment so that hospital nurses can perform their work with faith in their supervisors, as well as having superiors who are ethical leaders.

Citations

• Influence of Nursing Manager's Ethical Leadership Perceived by Nurses in Patient-Engaged Nursing Services: Mediating Effect of Patient Participation Culture
  Yea Seul Yoon, Yoonjung Ji, Tae Wha Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2023; 29(4): 397.     CrossRef
• Influence of Ethical Leadership of Nursing Unit Managers on Job Embeddedness of Staff Nurses: Focusing on Mediating Effect of Trust in Supervisor
  Sunmi Kim, Seohee Jeong, Seok Hee Jeong, Myung Ha Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2021; 27(1): 21.     CrossRef
• Effects of a Strength Coaching Program on Positive Psychological Capital, Coaching Leadership, and Organizational Commitment in Front-line Nursing Managers
  Ran Lee, Miyoung Kim
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2020; 27(5): 410.     CrossRef

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to conduct a grounded theoretical analysis on the hospital accreditation experience of head nurses in order to understand their behavior on the adaption of this new system.
METHODS
The participants were 8 head nurses with more than 3 years of experience. The data were collected through in-depth interviews using audiotape recording analyzed by the constant comparative method described in Strauss and Corbin's methodology.
RESULTS
There were 113 concepts, 26 subcategories and 12 categories identified through the open coding process. In the axial coding, the following paradigm model was proposed: 1) the causal conditions were ‘hardware problem’ and ‘software problem’, 2) the contextual conditions were ‘vertical relationship’, ‘individual preference’, and ‘family support’, 3) the intervening conditions were ‘passive conditions’ and ‘active conditions’, 4) the action/interaction strategies were ‘leading role’ and ‘dependent role’, 5) the consequences were ‘positive acceptance’ and ‘negative acceptance’, 6) the central phenomenon was ‘difficult situation’ and 7) the core category was ‘leading in harmony’.
CONCLUSION
The new system led head nurses having difficulties as the middleman between the hospital administration and general nurses, but they made a continuous effort to overcome and adapt to it through a number of strategies.

Citations

• Educational needs for nursing manager competency in Korean hospitals: multi-center cross-sectional study
  Seung-Min Lee, Beob-Wang Ahn, Mi Yu
  BMC Nursing.2024;[Epub]     CrossRef
• Development and Evaluation of Nursing Work Environment Scale of Clinical Nurses
  Yeong Ju Ko, Gwi-Ryung Son Hong
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2022; 28(5): 576.     CrossRef
• Work Experience of Nurses in Charge of Adequacy Evaluation of Small and Medium Sized Hospitals
  Sohee Nam, Jaehee Jeon, Yeon Jeong Heo
  Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing.2021; 14(3): 99.     CrossRef
• Response Patterns of Nursing Unit Managers regarding Workplace Bullying: A Q Methodology Approach
  Jin Kyu Choi, Byoungsook Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.2019; 49(5): 562.     CrossRef