Employee Empowerment in Nursing

Trends and hot topics in nurse empowerment research: A bibliometric analysis

“…Several factors may have contributed to this growth. The first is that healthcare organizations have started to see human power as the most important source in obtaining competitive advantage, especially in recent years (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2008; Er & Altuntas, 2014). This may have led institution administrators and nurse managers to focus on nurse empowerment.…”

“…The increase in the number of studies is an important and positive finding in terms of showing that nurse empowerment is an active field of study. However, research shows that nurses do not feel strong enough regardless of their roles (Er & Altuntas, 2014; Regan & Rodriguez, 2011; Smith et al ., 2012). Therefore, efforts to understand empowerment and raise awareness in nursing should continue.…”

“…The concept of empowerment in nursing is seen as a motivation tool that enables a nurse to have control over practices without compromising their professional responsibilities (Ott & Ross, 2014). Reasons such as rapid change of information and technology, increased patient expectations and changing competition conditions necessitated that nurses are constantly equipped with new knowledge, skills and competencies, in other words, they are strengthened (Er & Altuntas, 2014;Trus et al, 2018). In order to improve the quality of nursing care and achieve positive organizational outcomes, empowerment of nurses is now seen as an imperative (Al-Dweik et al, 2016;Er & Altuntas, 2014).…”

Determination of Nursing Sensitive Indicators for Intensive Care Units in Turkey: A Qualitative Study

“…Furthermore, Turkey's total intensive care bed capacity is 48.753, and nursing care activities are mainly performed in ICUs [14]. Despite that, research aimed at making nursing care visible generally consists of survey studies that examine a single level and focus on nurses' or patients' descriptive characteristics of nurses or patients [15][16][17][18]. This study was conducted to determine the nursing-sensitive indicators for ICUs.…”

Hemşirelerin Yönetimsel Sorunları: Çalışan Hemşireler Üzerine Bir Araştırma

“…Ayrıca kültürel değerlerin genellikle zayıf ekip çalışmasının nedeni olduğu da bir gerçektir (Hai-ping, Wei-ying, You-qing, Chi, Yang-yang ve Li-li, 2020). Hemşirelik hizmetlerinin yönetiminden sorumlu üst yöneticilerin değişime ve yeniliklere kapalı olması ve hemşirelerden yalnızca geleneksel rolleri yerine getirmelerini beklemeleri hemşirelerin güçlendirilmeleri yolunda bir engel oluşturmaktadır (Er ve Altuntaş, 2014). Özetle söylemek gerekirse probleme neden olan etmenler çok boyutludur ve biyolojik psikolojik ve sosyal etmenlerin çalışanların davranışlarını şekillendirdiği kabul edilmektedir.…”