Embracing Transformational Leadership: An Integrated Review of Transformational Leadership Practices among Nurse Managers

Introduction: In today's ever-changing and demanding healthcare environment, developing leadership qualities of frontline nurse managers is important for success of any organization. Studies conducted on leadership styles among nurses demonstrated a positive outcome that include work engagement, staff wellbeing and job satisfaction. Similarly, transformational leadership has positive effects on nurses’ job satisfaction and promotes organizational commitment. Objective: The purpose of this review is to describe transformational leadership among nurse managers, their job satisfaction, organizational commitment and enhancing work engagement among nurses through an integrated review. Materials and methods: The bibliographic search carried out between June 2024 and December 2024. The sources came from CINAHL, MEDLINE, COCHRANE, Ovid, Science Direct and Google Scholar. HMC Medical library extends access to most of the databases used in this review. The key words included for literature search were transformational leadership, transformational leadership programme, work engagement. Charge nurses, leadership practices. The Zotero IT platform has been used to store and manage any material that was judged pertinent. Results: 32 studies were examined and studied under four themes: Transformational leadership among nurse managers. 2. Impact of transformational leadership on work engagement. 3. Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment 4. Structural empowerment. The results of this study are consistent with transformational leadership theory, which highlights the leader’s role in providing employees with structural empowerment that result in higher levels of job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Conclusion: Transformational leadership practices, such as the ability to listen to the followers, involving them in shared vision, promoting innovation and creativity, providing personalized recognition and rewarding are basic to enhance work satisfaction and maintaining a supportive work environment. This review emphasizes the crucial role transformational leaders play in enhancing job satisfaction, work engagement and advocates for a positive work environment that in turn produce better outcomes for patients. The review also recommends training and education for developing transformational leadership behaviors. Keywords: Transformational Leadership, Work Engagement, Nurse managers, structural empowerment