| Leadership is important to obtaining and sustaining hospital clinical excellence. The purpose of this quantitative comparative research study was to examine hospital chief nurse executives' self-perceptions of leadership practices and compare self-perceptions of leadership practices in Magnet and non-Magnet hospitals in the United States using Kouzes and Posner's (2003) Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI-S). The dependent variables were the five Leadership Practices Inventory subscales. The independent variable was Magnet- or non-Magnet-hospital status. The focus was to determine if a difference existed in the dependent variables (i.e., leadership practices) and between the two categories of the independent variable (i.e., Magnet or non-Magnet recognition). The Leadership Practices Instrument was administered online to Magnet-hospital chief nurse executives and a comparable random sample of non-Magnet-hospital chief nurse executives. Based on the data, the null hypotheses were not rejected for the five LPI-S components of measure: modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart, indicating that there were no significant differences in the self-perceptions of leadership practices between Magnet- and non-Magnet-hospital chief nurse executives. |
