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Individual nurse empowerment: A concept analysis
1University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, Washington.
Nursing Forum
|November 2, 2019
Summary
Nurse empowerment is an individual process, not just job-related. Understanding individual empowerment helps advance the nursing profession beyond its oppressive history.
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Professional Development
- Organizational Psychology
Background:
- Nursing's history as a gendered role has resulted in oppression, lateral violence, and attrition.
- Organizational empowerment initiatives may offer illusory power to nurses.
- A need exists to redefine nurse empowerment beyond organizational structures.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze nurse empowerment as an individual professional process.
- To differentiate individual empowerment from job-related empowerment.
- To explore the impact of clarified individual empowerment on the nursing discipline.
Main Methods:
- Concept analysis utilizing Walker and Avant's methodology.
- Literature review of published works from 1990-2019.
- Analysis of empirical studies and electronic databases for current empowerment definitions.
Main Results:
- True nurse empowerment involves control over practice and career.
- Individual empowerment draws from concepts of structural and psychological empowerment.
- Empowerment is an intrinsic quality of the individual nurse.
Conclusions:
- Viewing nurse empowerment individually moves the profession past historical oppression.
- A clarified understanding of individual empowerment can propel nursing forward.
- Individual empowerment enhances the nursing profession's impact on communities.
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