Abstract
ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the level of empowerment among the nurses from a hospital located in the south of Chile and verify its potential association with personal and professional characterization variables. Method: cross-sectional and descriptive study conducted with 117 nurses from a hospital in the south of Chile. Data were collected in 2018 using a personal and professional characterization form and the Spanish version of the Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire II. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: the means of the factors of the empowerment scale were: Opportunity (4.11±0.82); Information (3.81±0.90); Support (3.81±0.86), and Resources (3.13±0.97). Statistically significant differences were found between empowerment and having greater professional experience, working in the medical-surgical unit, having from 3 to 10 patients under responsibility, job satisfaction, and intention to quit their jobs. Conclusion: the nurses reported a positive perception of empowerment in their roles, especially concerning having opportunities to perform tasks that contribute to acquiring new knowledge and skills at work.
Highlights
The history of nursing in Chile shows its significant advancement as discipline and profession
Despite advancements in regulations concerning the role of nurses, they have not necessarily promoted the organization of work and the adoption of management models that strengthen the autonomous work of nurses and their empowerment to exercise care managment.[1,5]
Most of the nurses are satisfied with their work (55.6%), consider that the care provided to patients is very good (55.6%), and has no intention to quit their jobs (72.6%)
Summary
The history of nursing in Chile shows its significant advancement as discipline and profession. In 2007, with the Health Reform, management of care was a requirement in the organization of health services.[1] These changes represented the repositioning of Nursing as an autonomous profession in which nurses assume the responsibility for the management of care in terms of production, maintenance and recovery of people’s health.[2] In this sense, the management of care corresponds to the exercise of personal, professional and instrumental competencies to organize, monitor, link, and coordinate care and workflows to promote quality care delivery.[3,4]. Nurses have the legal foundations for care practice and especially to manage it as their filed of expertise.[2] Despite advancements in regulations concerning the role of nurses, they have not necessarily promoted the organization of work and the adoption of management models that strengthen the autonomous work of nurses and their empowerment to exercise care managment.[1,5]
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