Nurse empowerment—Linking demographics, qualities and performances of empowered Filipino nurses

Abstract

Nurses are traditionally being viewed as handmaidens of the doctors (Hoeve et al., 2014). With recent advancements in the profession, they are now experts who do more than just providing comfort and helping people recover. For such, several opportunities have flourished where nurses can continue to touch the lives of several people they care for. As patient care is no longer confined within the walls of the hospitals, nurses are seen in various settings (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2016) such as in school, occupational, community or public health nursing. Nurses are also able to do independent works from basic practice to engaging in advanced nursing practices such as nurse entrepreneurship and nurse anaesthetist.

Women's power in hospital‐based nursing: A critical qualitative study

“…This finding coincides with Watkins et al (2016), who suggest there is a significant relationship between psychological empowerment and autonomy in newly licensed registered nurses. In addition, our research validates the idea that competence, knowledge and experience can empower nurses (Tan & Conde, 2021; Tracy et al, 2019). Our research further highlights the specific ways competence and experience can be increased, namely through mentoring, effective orientations and supportive leaders.…”

Graduating Nursing Students’ Empowerment and Related Factors: Comparative Study in Six European Countries

“…We also found five background factors that were positively related to the level of empowerment. Age was a related factor, which was in line with a study among nurses [27] but contrary to a study among NGNs [19]. Moreover, a significant and strong positive correlation was detected between empowerment, including all its categories, and generic self-assessed competence, for all its categories.…”

“…NGNs have assessed their empowerment level in terms of qualities as fairly high (mean 3.95; five-point Likert scale) [19]. In addition, nurses' empowerment level in terms of qualities and performance has been described as moderate (both means 4.19; five-point Likert scale) [27] and rather high (performance: mean 4.05; five-point Likert scale) [28]. These assessments represent, approximately, mean values over 70 on a VAS 0-100 scale.…”

“…The empowerment of nurses has been studied from different perspectives. In terms of qualities and performance, nurses' empowerment level has been described, for example, as fairly positive [25], quite high [26], moderate [27], and rather high [28]. The empowerment of nurses has been found to relate to better patient care and overall job performance by nurses [29,30]; to increase patient-centred care [31]; to improve the clinical environment [8]; and to decrease the burnout, stress, and emotional exhaustion of nurses [29].…”

The Effect of Professionalism and Structural Empowerment on Job Satisfaction of Inpatient Nurse

“…From 6 demographic data, namely gender, education, age, work experience, employment status and marital status, education influences nurse structural empowerment (Table 3). Tan & Conde (2021) states that the level of structural empowerment is influenced by the level of education of nurses.…”