Abstract:

Background: Transformational leadership globally plays an important role in the health care system especially patient care by nurses, because performance of the staff nurses link closely to the leadership styles. Now a day’s health care organizations facing shortage of nurses for delivery of evidence base care to patient. Suitable leadership style in nurses can overcome the dearth of qualified and competent nurses as well as fulfill the health care organizations goal. Numerous researchers proven that competent leaders enhance the nurses performance during patient care.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to identify the effect of transformational leadership on nurses’ performance in two tertiary care government hospitals (Jinnah and Children), Lahore Pakistan.

Method:In this study quantitative non-interventional descriptive cross sectional study design was used on n =250 participants from two government hospitals Lahore Pakistan.

Results: The effect of transformational leadership on nurses’ performance was identified positively. Descriptive, Correlation and Regression analysis on SPSS shows significant findings for this study. Finding of regression test shows that transformational leadership has positive effect on nurses’ performance. The values of regression test are 1 as it shows that strong relationship of transformational leadership on nurses’ performance.

Conclusions:This study highlighted that transformational leadership enhance nurses performance so, it is important to prepared and trained the nurses leaders for utilization of transformational leadership style at health care setting for enhancement of nurses performance. Nurses’ knowledge and practice may be enhancingthrough workshop and seminars. Health care organizations may develop mechanism for the improvement of nurses’ performance through transformational leadership style and develop the research based culture.

Keywords: Transformational leadership, Nurses, Nurses performance

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