The Relationship between Nursing Teaching Staff Transformational Leadership and Creativity among Nursing Students

Background: Transformational leadership has been shown to have appositive impact on students creativity in educational setting. Aim: This study aims to assess relationship between nursing teaching staff transformational leadership and creativity among nursing students. Research Design: This study used descriptive correlational research design. Setting: the current study was conducted at Faculty of nursing, EL- Fayoum university. Subjects:113 nursing teaching staff and 206 nursing students were selected .Tools: to collect data two tools were used for included 1st was multifactor leadership questioner to assess transformational leadership consisted of (12) items that contain four dimensions and 2nd was creativity assessment questioner consisted of (17) items that contain two dimensions. Results: indicated that, more than three-quarters (77.9%) of the studied nursing teaching staff perceived a high level of transformational leadership. Also, the study demonstrated more than half (55.3%) of the studied nursing student have a high level of creativity. Conclusion: this study concluded that, there was a highly statistically significant positive strong correlation between nursing teaching staff’s perception regarding transformational leadership and nursing student’s creativity at r = 0.953 & P = 0.000. Recommendations: conduct training to increase nursing teaching staff awareness about transformational leadership and students creativity.