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Objective To study the impact of head nurses'support on the creation of encouraging management atmosphere.Methods We randomly selected 120 clinical nurses from the Sir Run Run Shaw hospital.Then we adopted head nurses'support questionnaires,nurses'stressor questionnaires and career satisfaction questionnaires and drew argumentation of our hypothesis by introducing double-factor theory.Results The management atmosphere was only inferior to the workload among all of the stressor resources.The supportive behaviors of head nurses were positively related to the career satisfaction of nurses and the encouraging management atmosphere.Conclusion Head nurses'could relieve nurses'working pressure and unsatisfactory attitude toward work by using supportive management style.In this way they could increase encouraging factors in the management and facilitated the creation of encouraging management atmosphere and improvement of effective management.