Nursing Empowerment, Workplace Environment, and Job Satisfaction in Nurses Employed in an Academic Health Science...

Shari Kretzschmer¹, Mandi Walker, John Myers+6

• ¹Shari Kretzschmer, MSN, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, is Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer, University of Louisville Hospital/James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Louisville, Kentucky. Mandi Walker, MSN, RN-BC, CCRN, is Clinical Education Nursing Manager, Kentucky One Health, Louisville, Kentucky. John Myers, PhD, MPH, is Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. Krista Vogt, is Undergraduate Research Scholar, School of Nursing, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. Jessica Massouda, BSN, RN, is Clinical Nurse, Interventional Radiology, University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky. Deidra Gottbrath, BSN, RN, CCRN, is Clinical Nurse and Chair of Nursing Congress, University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky. Melissa Pritchett, BSN, RN, OCN, is Clinical Nurse and Chair of Nursing Congress, University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky. Reetta Stikes, MSN, RNC-NIC, CLC, is Nurse Educator, Center for Women & Infants, University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky. M. Cynthia Logsdon, PhD, WHNP-BC, FAAN, is Professor, School of Nursing, University of Louisville, and Associate Chief of Nursing for Research, University of Louisville Hospital/James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Louisville, Kentucky.