Caring Leadership Mentoring for Charge Nurse in Inpatient Units

Declining nurse performance due to monotony, fatigue, lack of motivation and morale will have an impact on the quality of service. The charge nurse has responsibility both physically and mentally towards the success of work activities as well as the performance of the members. Charge nurse’s leadership is needed to improve nurse performance. Caring leadership is a leadership style that can facilitate the needs of nurses so that it will improve performance, but not all leaders are able to implement the caring leadership. One of the techniques that can be used to develop leadership competencies is mentoring. The intervention of caring leadership mentoring is used as a medium to foster the spirit of caring leadership of the charge nurse. The method used in this study is case reporting. This case report explains about the caring leadership mentoring interventions that can help the charge nurse to be able to apply caring leadership especially in leading nursing activities in an inpatient room. The sample in the study was the charge nurse in the inpatient room for internal disease. The results of the study showed that caring leadership mentoring was effective to be used to improve the ability of the charge nurse to implement caring leadership. It is recommended that this mentoring activity of caring leadership to be carried out periodically and consistently for all the charge nurse in the hospital.