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Effect of head nurse empowerment program on staff nurses' job satisfaction at two educational hospitals in Rasht, Iran

BACKGROUND: Job satisfaction of nurses is an important concept in nursing profession because it influences nursing care. Head nurses play a crucial role in the job satisfaction of nurse staffs. The current study, therefore, aimed to investigate the effect of Head Nurse Empowerment Program (HNEP) on...

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Autores principales: Babaeipour-Divshali, Mohammad, Amrollahimishavan, Fatemeh, Vanaki, Zohre, Abdollahimohammad, Abdolghani, Firouzkouhi, Mohammadreza
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27186209
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1735-9066.180379
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author Babaeipour-Divshali, Mohammad
Amrollahimishavan, Fatemeh
Vanaki, Zohre
Abdollahimohammad, Abdolghani
Firouzkouhi, Mohammadreza
author_facet Babaeipour-Divshali, Mohammad
Amrollahimishavan, Fatemeh
Vanaki, Zohre
Abdollahimohammad, Abdolghani
Firouzkouhi, Mohammadreza
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description BACKGROUND: Job satisfaction of nurses is an important concept in nursing profession because it influences nursing care. Head nurses play a crucial role in the job satisfaction of nurse staffs. The current study, therefore, aimed to investigate the effect of Head Nurse Empowerment Program (HNEP) on job satisfaction of nurses. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This quasi-experimental study was conducted at two educational hospitals in Rasht, Iran. Of 160 staff nurses who were working in eight medical-surgical wards and two Intensive Care Units, 60 were recruited using simple random sampling method. The samples were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. The HNEP was applied to promote the management skills among nurses, which included technical, communicational, perceptional, and diagnostic skills. The data were collected using nurses' job satisfaction questionnaire and analyzed using the Mann–Whitney and Wilcoxon Singed Ranks tests. P < 0.05 was set as the significance level. RESULTS: There was a significant difference in the job satisfaction of nurse staff within the experimental group on comparing pre- and post-HNEP phases [78 (65.50) vs. 78 (65.50); P < 0.001]. The job satisfaction also differed between the control and experimental groups [60 (82.25) vs. 128.5 (51.75); P < 0.001]. However, no significant difference [62 (78.75) vs. 60 (82.25); P = 0.129] was found within the control group. The number of satisfied nurse staffs increased in the experimental group from approximately 25% to 76% after HNEP. CONCLUSIONS: The HNEP can be used as a promoting tool in the nursing profession. Increasing head nurses' management skills can result in job satisfaction among the staff nurses.
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spelling pubmed-48576662016-05-16 Effect of head nurse empowerment program on staff nurses' job satisfaction at two educational hospitals in Rasht, Iran Babaeipour-Divshali, Mohammad Amrollahimishavan, Fatemeh Vanaki, Zohre Abdollahimohammad, Abdolghani Firouzkouhi, Mohammadreza Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: Job satisfaction of nurses is an important concept in nursing profession because it influences nursing care. Head nurses play a crucial role in the job satisfaction of nurse staffs. The current study, therefore, aimed to investigate the effect of Head Nurse Empowerment Program (HNEP) on job satisfaction of nurses. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This quasi-experimental study was conducted at two educational hospitals in Rasht, Iran. Of 160 staff nurses who were working in eight medical-surgical wards and two Intensive Care Units, 60 were recruited using simple random sampling method. The samples were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. The HNEP was applied to promote the management skills among nurses, which included technical, communicational, perceptional, and diagnostic skills. The data were collected using nurses' job satisfaction questionnaire and analyzed using the Mann–Whitney and Wilcoxon Singed Ranks tests. P < 0.05 was set as the significance level. RESULTS: There was a significant difference in the job satisfaction of nurse staff within the experimental group on comparing pre- and post-HNEP phases [78 (65.50) vs. 78 (65.50); P < 0.001]. The job satisfaction also differed between the control and experimental groups [60 (82.25) vs. 128.5 (51.75); P < 0.001]. However, no significant difference [62 (78.75) vs. 60 (82.25); P = 0.129] was found within the control group. The number of satisfied nurse staffs increased in the experimental group from approximately 25% to 76% after HNEP. CONCLUSIONS: The HNEP can be used as a promoting tool in the nursing profession. Increasing head nurses' management skills can result in job satisfaction among the staff nurses. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4857666/ /pubmed/27186209 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1735-9066.180379 Text en Copyright: © Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Vanaki, Zohre
Abdollahimohammad, Abdolghani
Firouzkouhi, Mohammadreza
Effect of head nurse empowerment program on staff nurses' job satisfaction at two educational hospitals in Rasht, Iran
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title_fullStr Effect of head nurse empowerment program on staff nurses' job satisfaction at two educational hospitals in Rasht, Iran
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title_short Effect of head nurse empowerment program on staff nurses' job satisfaction at two educational hospitals in Rasht, Iran
title_sort effect of head nurse empowerment program on staff nurses' job satisfaction at two educational hospitals in rasht, iran
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27186209
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1735-9066.180379
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