Domains of Empowerment among Nursing students

Abstract

Nursing has seen the emergence of the term "empowerment" in its lexicon. As the largest healthcare professional group, nurses play a vital role in encouraging patients to take action toward achieving both health and sustained development aspirations. The nursing profession is faced with a range of challenges that necessitate an immediate need to invest in healthcare workers. New nurses with superior qualifications are essential to handle these tribulations. It is imperative that student nurses be endowed with the necessary means and resources in order to meet these difficulties during their professional trajectories. So descriptive study was conducted to spot light on the areas of empowerment among the student nurses during their training period. 146 samples were recruited by purposive sampling technique. Tool has two parts demographic variables and domains of empowerment (Communication, stewardship, access to information and resources, training opportunities, research and clinical competence). Data was collected by Google forms. The results showed that student nurses have the ability to communicate effectively and have access to information and resources; however, they require further development of multilingual skills. Stewardship, training opportunities, research, and clinical competency were found to be areas needing improvement as the mean score for most statements was lower than average.