Evaluating the Relationship Between Leadership Communication and Trust Among Nursing Team Members
Posted: Aug 12, 2024
Abstract
The critical importance of effective leadership communication in healthcare settings has been widely acknowledged in both academic literature and clinical practice. However, the precise mechanisms through which leadership communication influences trust development among nursing team members remain inadequately understood. Traditional approaches to studying this relationship have been limited by methodological constraints, including reliance on retrospective self-report data and artificial experimental conditions that fail to capture the dynamic, high-stakes environment of clinical nursing practice. This research addresses these limitations by introducing an innovative methodological framework that combines computational linguistics with social network analysis to examine leadership communication and trust relationships in their natural context. Trust represents a fundamental component of effective healthcare teams, influencing everything from medication error rates to patient satisfaction scores. Within nursing teams, trust facilitates knowledge sharing, reduces cognitive load during critical decision-making, and enhances psychological safety. Leadership communication serves as a primary vehicle for trust cultivation, yet the specific communication patterns that most effectively build trust remain inadequately understood.
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