In December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province in China, and then, it expanded quickly, resulting in unprecedented remarkable threats to the public health, not only to China, but also worldwide. To efficiently stop the rapid spread of the epidemic, Chinese government adopted multiple response policies including traffic control, home isolation, modifying the regular wards into isolation wads and building new hospitals for infected people. Meanwhile, medical workers echoed actively calls for mobilization from National Health Commission of China to support the epidemic control. As a result, patients were successfully treated and mortality decreased gradually and the COVID-19 epidemic ultimately was under the control in China. The nurses constituted the major front-line rescue workforce in combating the COVID-19 epidemic. It is estimated that totally

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The purpose of this study was to examine the levels of workplace structural empowerment perceived by Chinese clinical nurses, as well as to identify the relationship between nurses' perceptions of empowerment and job satisfaction, and turnover intention. A total of 189 staff nurses from two hospitals in central China completed a self-administered questionnaire. The results indicated that these nurses perceived moderate levels of workplace empowerment. Structural empowerment and job satisfaction were found to be negatively related to turnover intention. These findings have important implications for administrators providing an effective work environment for clinical nurses.