Background: In health care settings, There is a necessity for coaching nurses bytheirleaders to provide quality nursing care and thus enhance patient safety through reporting theerrorspromptly which require from nurses to have ethical awareness and monitoring themselvesindifferent situations Aim of the study: to assess the relation between nursing coaching leadership, self-monitoring, intention to report errors, and exploring whether ethical awareness serves asapotential mediating factor in this relation. Subjects and methods: A simple randomsample of 230nurses working in Al- Ahrar teaching Hospital, Zagazig, Egypt. This study used a descriptivecorrelational design, four tools were used to collect the data; Nursing coaching leadershipscale, self-monitoring scale, nurses’ reporting errors scale and ethical awareness scale. Results: revealedthat the majority of studied nurses had a high perception level of nursing coaching leadership, andintention of errors reporting, while more than two thirds of studied nurses had a moderate level ofethical awareness, and self- monitoring. Conclusion: This study confirmed the positive correlationbetween nursing coaching leadership, self-monitoring, intention to report errors, andethical awareness. Furthermore, Ethical awareness had a partial mediating role in the relationshipbetweennursing coaching leadership, self-monitoring, and intention to report errors. Recommendations: Nursing managers should consider organizing in-service training or continuing education activitiesto improve nurses’ ethical awareness, self-monitoring, and reporting errors, thereby optimizing patient care