Yes. The strongest evidence supports your paragraph through literature on servant leadership, psychological safety, nurse burnout, emotional support and debriefing. You can use the following sources to support your writing.
Useful evidence
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A study on nurses during COVID-19 found that servant leadership and psychological safety had an inverse relationship with nurses’ burnout, meaning higher servant leadership and psychological safety were associated with lower burnout [
3].
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The same study examined servant leadership through the mechanism of psychological safety, supporting your point that supportive leadership can reduce burnout by creating a safer emotional and working environment for nurses [
3].
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A 2025 scoping review found a consistent inverse relationship between psychological safety and burnout in nurses, and identified leadership style, including servant leadership, as relevant to psychological safety [
1].
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A 2025 study on critical care nurses found a strong positive correlation between servant leadership and psychological safety, and servant leadership was a significant predictor of psychological safety [
2].




