Relation between Head Nurses Boundary Spanning Leadership and Nursing Team Effectiveness

Background: Boundary spanning is essential for head nurses since nursing team doesnot work alone, as well nurses function in an intricate healthcare environment withnumerous responsibilities, where nurses often in need for autonomous decision makingbecause of critically ill patients. Aim: To assess the relation between head nursesboundary spanning leadership and nursing team effectiveness. Research design: Adescriptive correlational study design was used. Setting: The study was conducted at infollowing departments at Tanta University main hospitals in nine setting namely:(gynecology and obstetrics, cardiac, neurology, plastic, tropical, pediatric,ophthalmology, chest and medical departments were included in the study. Subjects:Includes all staff nurses (n=447) Tools: Two tools were used to collect the needed data.Head Nurses Boundary Spanning Scale and Team Effectiveness Questionnaire. Results:(38.0%) of staff nurses reported that their head nurses had high level of all dimensionsof head nurses boundary spanning leadership. Conclusion: There was positivesignificant statistically correlation was found staff nurses perception of head nurseboundary spanning leadership and their team effectiveness. Recommendations: Thehospital management needs to priming significance toward change the systems, policies,and practices of the hospitals to abridge the application of boundary spanning and teameffectiveness on making the choices that increase nurses' satisfaction