Normative power of chief executive nurses.
This study sought to determine if there was a significant difference in the equality of power of chief executive nurses and other executives with similar titles in a hospital organization. A 36-item Power Assessment Inventory was used to collect the data from 96 chief nurse executives and 147 other executives in the same institutions. The findings showed the nurse executive to be more powerful in overall normative power, prestige and esteem, as well as legitimacy of position. The chief executive nurse was found to be equal with the other executives regarding symbols of power. These results indicate that nurse executives are having a significant impact on the business of health care and health care administration and imply that nurses should cease referring to themselves and their profession as being powerless.
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D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001318:Authoritarianism; D005260:Female; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012938:Social Perception