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Abstract
Background:Authentic leadership is a relational style that is meant to nurture a flaring work atmosphere and affect the employee’s enactment and outcomes, while innovative work conduct is highly proven to support operational maturity and its competitive advantages. The aimof the study was to examine the relationship between authentic leadership as perceived by nurses and the nurses’ innovative behavior in healthcare. Design:A descriptive correlational research design was followed, involving 323 nurses working in all departments. Setting:Damietta city hospitals, which are affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt. Subjects: nurses working in the previously mentioned setting with a total number of 323. Tools:The Authentic Nurse Leader Questionnaire, the Staff Leader Evaluation, and the Innovative Work Behavior Scale were used. Results:About 42.7% of the studied nurses assumed their nurse leaders were highly authentic. Despite this, 41.5% of nurses demonstrated a lower level of innovation behavior in their practice. Finally, statistically significant positive correlations betweenall authentic leadership domains and all innovative behavior domains(p 0.00).Conclusion:It was concluded that there is a two-thirds of the studied nurses perceived their leaders as having authentic leadership skills. Furthermore, a minority of the nurses studied exhibited high levels of innovative behavior, while less than half exhibited low levels of innovative behavior. Recommendation:Nurse Managersshould have the ability to adopt authentic leadership behaviors and should engage other nurses’ opinions in the decision-making process, which may create new ideas.