“…Inquiring into the work of nurses, DeFrino () argues that it is through their unseen relational work that nurses achieve positive patient and professional outcomes. Such embodied history could flow over into nursing leadership relationships, and, in contrast to task‐focused nurse leaders, relationship‐focused leaders have been shown to improve nurses’ working life, care environments, productivity and patient outcomes (Cicolini, Comparcini, & Simonetti, ; Cowden, Cummings, & Profetto‐McGrath, ; Cummings et al., ; Lynch, McCormack, McCance, & Brown, ; Wagner et al., ; Wong, Cummings, & Ducharme, ). However, nursing leadership research predominantly views leadership from a hierarchical perspective and is rarely framed within relational leadership theory.…”