Joint Commission International ( JCI ) The Relationship between Tranformational Leadership of Head Nurses and Joint Commission International (JCI) Accreditation

Abstract

The purposes of this descriptive research were :1) to study transformational leadership of head nurses as perceived by professional nurses. 2) Joint Commission International ( JCI ) Accreditation. 3) to find the relationship between transformational leadership of head nurses and Joint Commission International (JCI ) Accreditation. The research sample comprised of 299 professional nurses at network private hospitals of the large one. The research tool comprised three sets of questionnaires including the personnel data, Transformational Leadership of head nurse as perceived by professional nurse at Network private hospital of the large one and the Joint Commission International (JCI) Accreditation. These questionnaires were tested for validity and reliability. The Cronbach’s Alpha reliability coefficients of part 2 were 0.96. Data were analyzed by using frequency percentage mean and standard deviation and correlation analysis. The statistics Multinomial Logistic Regression. The findings were as follows. 1) Transformational Leadership of head nurse were at high level ( = 4.13, S.D. = 0.55 ). 2)The accreditation of Joint Commission International (JCI) network private hospital of the large one. 66.8 percent have not been evaluated and certified by Joint Commission International (JCI) and 33.2 percent passed the evaluation and Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation. 3)Transformational Leadership had a statistically significant positive correlation with Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation (p < .01).