THE MEDIATING ROLE OF NURSES' GRIT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLINICAL NURSING LEADERSHIP AND NURSES’ PERFORMANCE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY IN SAUDI HEALTH SECTOR

Yasir Hayat Mughal

doi:10.46903/gjms/22.4.suppl.1512

THE MEDIATING ROLE OF NURSES' GRIT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLINICAL NURSING LEADERSHIP AND NURSES’ PERFORMANCE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY IN SAUDI HEALTH SECTOR

Yasir Hayat Mughal

Abstract

Background: The nurses made up the most of medical and health workforce globally. The aim of the study was to investigate the mediating role of grit on the relationship between clinical nursing leadership and nurses’ performance.

Materials & Methods: This was quantitative and cross-sectional study; data was analyzed in SPSS and PLS-SEM. Questionnaire was adapted and distributed among nurse managers working in public and private healthcare organizations in Qassim province Saudi Arabia. Questionnaire had two sections, one consisted of demographic variables of nursing leaders such as age, gender, education, sector, and 2nd section consisted of items related with clinical nursing leadership, nurses’ performance and nurses’ grit. Measurement and structural models were developed to investigate the reliability, validity and hypotheses testing.

Results: Total 145 participants had participated in this study. 70.3% respondents were female, 66.89% work in public sector and 44.82% worked in PHCCs. Findings indicated that all factor loadings, average variance extracted (AVE), composite reliability (CR) and Cronbach alpha met threshold. Discriminant validity also met cutoff level. Moreover, all direct and indirect(mediating) effects are found significant. Regression results revealed that clinical nursing leadership (CNL) has significant effect on nursing performance (NP) β= 0.377, p<0.05, moreover CNL has positive influence on nursing grit (NG) β=0.875, p<0.05; and NG over NP has positive impact i.e. β= 0.461, p<0.05 respectively. In addition, mediating effect of NG on the relationship between CNL and NP is also significant β=0.403, p<0.05.

Conclusion: Nurses with high in grit, focus on long term goals and deliver quality patient care. Healthcare organizations must pay attention to nurses’ grit as it helps in enhancing nurses’ performance.

Keywords

Nursing; Leadership; Grit; Performance; Healthcare.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.46903/gjms/22.4.suppl.1512