Nurse's psychological empowerment and perceived

autonomy in University and Teaching Hospitals at Menofia

Governorate/Egypt
*Manal M. Ibrahim, **Manal H. Abou Al-Magd, & ***Hala Y. Sayed

Introduction Results
Psychological Empowerment in any Psychological
organization does not work by saying
employee that they are empowered it
empowerment levels
High level Moderate
Requires requisite changes in the level 24%
system, practices, and policies of an
76%
organization. Thus, to make an
employee feel psychologically
empowered there has to be change/
modification in the managerial
Practices To study the relationship Levels of autonomy
between psychological empowerment
and perceived autonomy of nurses in
High
University and Teaching autonom
y 42%
Hospitals at Menofia Governorate. 58%
Low
Aim autonom
y
To study the relationship between
psychological empowerment and
Perceived autonomy of nurses in Conclusions
University and Teaching Hospitals at Three quarters of the studied sample
Menofia Governorate. had moderate level of psychological
empowerment , while half of them
had high level of autonomy. There
Methods was a highly statistical significant
correlation between total
psychological empowerment and
Research design:
perceived autonomy of nurses.
Descriptive correlational design was
used in the conduction of the present
study. Recommendations
- The total numbers of nurses who
accepted to participate were 550 nurses Nurses should be allowed to participate in
Tools of the study: decision making to empower them, as
Two tools were used to collect the data. well as increasing their feeling of
The first tool: part one: it was concerned autonomy.
with
the socio-demographic data of the nurses.
Part two: Psychological empowerment Bibliography
instrument, it consists of 17 statements. Manojlovich, M. (2014). Power and empowerment in nursing: Looking
backward to inform the future. OJIN: Online Journal of Issues in
The second tool: Nurses’ Autonomy Nursing, 12(1).
, M.J., (2010) "Strategies for Enhancing Autonomy and Control Over
Questionnaire. It consisted of 13 items Nursing Practice" OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing Vol.
15, No. 1.
www.postersession.com