Review
The Application and Progress of Empowerment Theory in Nursing
Jing-Jing Huang1,*,✉, Xuan Sun2,*
1. Department of Nursing, Health Science Center, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434023, China. 2. Outpatient Department, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430060, China. *, These authors contributed equally. ✉, Correspondence Jing-Jing Huang, Department of Nursing, Health Science Center, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434023, China. Email: [email protected]. Telephone number:18672307023. Received: May 4, 2019. Accepted: December 8, 2019. Published online: January 1, 2020. Cite this paper: Jing-Jing Huang, Xuan Sun. (2020) The Application and Progress of Empowerment Theory in Nursing. Global Journal of Life Sciences, 1(1):13-19. https://naturescholars.com/gjls.010103. https://doi.org/10.46633/gjls.010103. Copyright© 2020 by Scholars Publishing, LLC.
Abstract
The shortage of nursing staff has been a problem in hospitals around the world. According to the research of nursing scholars, nursing empowerment plays an important role in improving nurses’ job satisfaction, nursing quality and patients’ satisfaction, as well as reducing the turnover rate of nurses. This review summarizes the research progress of nursing empowerment, mainly from the classification, evaluation tools, application and the existing problems. This provides reference for the development of nursing empowerment, as well as improves the management system of nursing.
Key word: Nursing; Empowerment; Structural Empowerment; Psychological Empowerment.