TY - JOUR T1 - The Effect of Coaching Role Playing by Clinical Supervisors on Staff Nurses' Morale TT - تأثیر ایفای نقش مربیگری توسط سوپروایزران بالینی بر روحیه پرستاران JF - IJN JO - IJN VL - 19 IS - 48 UR - http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-217-en.html Y1 - 2007 SP - 37 EP - 46 KW - Staff nurse morale KW - Clinical supervision KW - Coaching role N2 -   Background & Aim: Currently, the most concern in the clinical nursing practice is the increasing problems related to the low morale in nurses. However, the importance of managerial behaviors and their influence on nurses' morale are obvious. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate "the effects of coaching role of clinical supervisors on staff nurses' morale ".   Material & Method: A quasi-experimental research with pre and post-test in two groups (experimental and control) was conducted in one of the teaching hospitals in Tehran which was selected randomly. There were eight medical–surgical units that randomly allocated in two groups. The study samples included 54 nurses, 27 nurses in each group of experimental and control. Data was gathered in two periods of pre and post intervention by a Staff Nurse Morale Questionnaire. The intervention had two stages the first was orientation: nursing management development program and the second was optimizing environment by designing an applied supervision guide for coaching roles of supervisors. After this stage, clinical supervisors played coaching role for 16 weeks as coaching role players.   Results: The Chi-square test revealed no significant differences between the two groups of experimental and control regarding individual characteristics (such as age, gender, job…). The mean scores of nursing morales in the experimental group at pre and post-intervention were 59.30 and 71.30 respectively that the difference was statistically significant (P M3 ER -