RESUMEN
Nursing leaders contend continuously to challenges that micromanage and often thwart professional creativity. Servant leadership as an approach could address these challenges in nursing service administration. Thus, this study aimed to determine the servant leadership characterization of nursing service administrators of government hospitals in Pampanga and Tarlac. A descriptive correlational design was used. A purposive sample of 70 nurse administrators comprises the respondents. Based on the results on Servant Leadership Inventory (SLI), the majority of them have very low servant first orientation, average to above average receptive caring, above average other centered service, and very low to low instructive transformative relating. Their age and position were significantly related to their servant leadership disposition specifically on the dimensions servant first orientation and instructive transformative relating.