Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care (SJNHC)
Volume-2 | Issue-01 | 15-23
Original Research Article
Inappropriate Behavior of the Clinical Nurses Influence the Nurse Managers Performance in Acute Care Setting
Hira Khalid, Muhammad Hussain, Muhammad Sabir, Syed Amir Gilani
Published : Jan. 22, 2019
Abstract
Background: Everyone expected in the workplace will behave in a professional manner, and treat each other with dignity
and respect. Many times clinical nurses behaving with manager nurses inappropriately and they think inappropriate
behavior is a sufficient remedy, because they often don’t realize that their actions are causing a problem. Inappropriate
behavior of the clinical nurses increased turnover rates in nurse managers, also reduced job satisfaction and reducing
leader abilities. Objective: The objective of the study was to measure the inappropriate behavior of the clinical nurses’
influence the nurse managers’ performance in Services hospital, Lahore. Methodology: Cross- sectional descriptive and
co-relational study was conduct to measure the inappropriate behavior of the clinical nurses’ influence the nurse
managers’ performance. One hundred and thirty nurse managers (n=130) were selected for that research and linear
regression was used to show the correlation between the variables. Results: The results of the study showed the positive
relationship between the inappropriate behavior of the clinical nurses and nurse manager’s performance. The
inappropriate behavior of the clinical nurses have 30.2% (p>0.05) relationship with nurse managers performance.
Conclusion: This study concludes that the inappropriate behavior of the clinical nurses influence the nurse mangers
performance. The results of the study showed the with beta value .549 with (p=0.00) and R square value is 30.2%.
Overall results of the study show positive relationship between the inappropriate behavior of the clinical nurses and nurse
manager’s performance.