Relationships Between and Among the Power of Self-Care Agency, Perceived Structural Empowerment and Psychological Empowerment in Nurse Managers in Acute Care Hospitals with Magnet Designation
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description: Background: In today’s dramatically changing healthcare environment, the nurse manager’s role in an acute care hospital is critical to meet the increasing patient care demands and the goals of the organization. The literature provides consensus that optimal nurse manager role behaviors are essential to facilitate a successful unit based organizational structure that can sustain workplace success. These behaviors can be theoretically described as the result of a nurse manager’s ability as self-care agent to activate his or her power of self-care agency in order to engage in optimal role behaviors that will ultimately ensure that the goals of the organization are met (Orem, 1995). Little effort has been made to examine the innate self-care abilities of current nurse managers who must fulfill important managerial role behaviors. In addition, examination of relationships between nurse manager role behaviors and empowered workplace environments such as an organization with Magnet designation is very limited in nursing or healthcare literature. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between and among the power of self-care agency, perceived structural empowerment and psychological empowerment in nurse managers in acute care hospitals with Magnet designation. Methods: This descriptive correlational study examined the relationships between and among self-care agency, perceived structural empowerment and psychological empowerment in nurse managers who work in an acute care hospital with Magnet designation. Ninety-seven volunteers nurse managers responded to four measurement tools including the Exercise of Self-Care Agency scale, the Conditions of Work Effectiveness-II tool, the Psychological Empowerment Instrument and a Demographic Information form. Results: The Spearman rank correlation between self-care agency and perceived structural empowerment showed a moderate, positive correlation. The Spearman rank correlation between self-care agency and…
abstract: Background: In today’s dramatically changing healthcare environment, the nurse manager’s role in an acute care hospital is critical to meet the increasing patient care demands and the goals of the organization. The literature provides consensus that optimal nurse manager role behaviors are essential to facilitate a successful unit based organizational structure that can sustain workplace success. These behaviors can be theoretically described as the result of a nurse manager’s ability as self-care agent to activate his or her power of self-care agency in order to engage in optimal role behaviors that will ultimately ensure that the goals of the organization are met (Orem, 1995). Little effort has been made to examine the innate self-care abilities of current nurse managers who must fulfill important managerial role behaviors. In addition, examination of relationships between nurse manager role behaviors and empowered workplace environments such as an organization with Magnet designation is very limited in nursing or healthcare literature. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between and among the power of self-care agency, perceived structural empowerment and psychological empowerment in nurse managers in acute care hospitals with Magnet designation. Methods: This descriptive correlational study examined the relationships between and among self-care agency, perceived structural empowerment and psychological empowerment in nurse managers who work in an acute care hospital with Magnet designation. Ninety-seven volunteers nurse managers responded to four measurement tools including the Exercise of Self-Care Agency scale, the Conditions of Work Effectiveness-II tool, the Psychological Empowerment Instrument and a Demographic Information form. Results: The Spearman rank correlation between self-care agency and perceived structural empowerment showed a moderate, positive correlation. The Spearman rank correlation between self-care agency and…
author: O'Keefe, Patricia Anne
keywords: Self-Care Agency, Nurse Manager, Structural Empowerment, Psychological Empowerment, Nursing, Nursing Administration
date published: 2014-03-04T08:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T04:32:52Z
provider: Seton Hall University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Seton Hall University