Research Proposal Abstract 2022

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Research Proposal
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Abstract
The head nurses are considered to be one important part of the hospital administration as they
play many roles such as the educator, the leader, the manager of the departments and the
subordinate nurses and the like. The supportive leadership can further retain all of the employees
so that the better health care services can become ensured properly. The current proposal
declares the aim of the research, the objectives, the background research , the methodology that
will be used in the research itself. The study will conduct the cross sectional survey and there
will be 5 items in the questionnaire which will be distributed among the 200 nurses of the
general hospital of Saudi Arabia.
Key words- Nursing, leadership, types of leadership, patient care, nurse turnover.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Significance of the study.............................................................................................................4
Gap in the knowledge..................................................................................................................5
Research Hypothesis....................................................................................................................5
The conceptual framework..........................................................................................................5
The Literature Review.....................................................................................................................6
The transformational leadership..................................................................................................6
The transactional leadership........................................................................................................6
The impact of leadership on staff performance...........................................................................7
The research aim and objectives......................................................................................................8
Research design and methods..........................................................................................................8
The ethical consideration.............................................................................................................9
Gantt Chart...................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................12
Appendix........................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The nurses are the trained people who are supposed to provide care to the injured and
sick people in the hospital specifically. The hospitals require the highly experienced and trained
nurses who can provide effective care to the sick patients. The health institutes that deliver the
medical and the surgical treatments to the sick people are the main focus of trained nurses. The
head nurse in a hospital is highly responsible for providing the supervision of all of the clinical
aspects. There are many roles that are performed by a head nurse such as the educator, the leader
and the charge nurse (Boamah, 2018). There are different leadership styles that are performed
by the head nurse for managing the staff nurses in the departments. The nursing leadership is
about influencing the subordinates for improving the quality of the care with direct participation
in the whole clinical care. The nursing leadership further consists of a clear vision along with the
staffs that are empowered and motivated too. The strong nursing leadership further helps people
in encouraging the other nurses for functioning in the form of the team units (Clark & Springer,
2010).. They make use of the administration with the values of change under the actions , the
obstacles and the visions under the innovations , the dangers that are under the remunerates.
Notably, there are different leadership styles used by the head nurses for managing the duty of
the nurses and some other problems in the health institutes.
The first style is the transformational leadership where a leader easily motivates the
subordinate nurses and provides them proper attention to the subordinate having known the
weaknesses and strengths of the job. There are four specific components of the transformational
leadership such as the intellectual stimulation, the individualize consideration, the idealized
influenced and the inspirational motivation. There is another leadership style such as the
transactional leadership that can involve the animated order to the disappointment for going with