Study on correlation between work empowerment and job satisfaction of nurses

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-4748.2015.20.002

Abstract：Objective:To probe into the status of work empowerment and job satisfaction of nurses and the corre-lation between them,so as to provide the evidences for nursing managers improving management methods and enhancing nurses’job satisfaction.Methods:Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire II and Job Satis-faction Questionnaire were used to investigate a total of 106 nurses in a third grade A hospital in Wuhan city by convenience sampling method.Results:The total score of work empowerment of nurses was (17.15±2.53),the scores of six dimensions respectively included informal power (3.15±0.50),support (3.06±0.69),opportunity (3.01±0.56),resources (2.88 ±0.64),formal power (2.74±0.47)and information (2.31 ±0.44);the total score of nurses’job satisfaction was (45.36±4.66);the work empowerment had significant positive correlation with the job satisfaction of nurses (r =0.648,P <0.01).Conclusion:The work empowerment and job satisfac-tion of nurses are not high.Nursing managers should take effective empowerment measures,aiming at the defi-cit of self empowerment,so as to improve the job satisfaction of nurses and the quality of clinical nursing.