Abusive and Coaching Supervision and its Relation to Nurses’ Talent

Abstract

Background: Talented nurses create differential value and make contributions to their hospitals and through good supervision nurses taking responsibility for developing and maintaining their talents in the work practices. Aim of the study: explore the relation between abusive and coaching supervision and nurses’ talent. Research design: Descriptive correlational research design was applied to achieve the aim of the present study. Sample: All (410) nurses working at Tanta University Main Hospital. Setting: Tanta University Main Hospital. Tools: Three Structured Questionnaire were used for data collection: Nurses' Perception of Abusive Supervision, Nurses' Perception of Coaching Supervision, and Nurses, Talent Assessment. Results: Majority of nurses had low perception levels to overall abusive supervision. More than half of nurses had high perception levels of overall coaching supervision and most of them had high levels of overall nurses’ talent. Conclusion: There was negative significant correlation between abusive supervision and nurses’ talent, while there was positive significant correlation between coaching supervision and nurses’ talent. Recommendations: The hospital administration should provide supervisors with adequate, regular and timely feedback about both strength and weakness points in their supervision. Nurse supervisors enhance the talented nurses to reach high- talent level by continuous and focused practice and training courses.