title: Work empowerment as experienced by nurses in elderly care.
abstract: This work describes the experiences of work empowerment among nurses engaged in elderly care in southern Finland. The data were collected with a questionnaire that included items on demographic background as well as verbal, behavioral, and outcome empowerment. The data were analyzed statistically. The nurses (N = 252, response rate = 80.8%) experienced strong verbal and behavioral empowerment. They felt clearly less confident about outcome empowerment than in the two other fields of empowerment. All fields of empowerment showed a statistically significant correlation with each another. Education and work experience were also related to behavioral empowerment. The results provide important clues for the development of elderly care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Science, University of Kuopio, Box 1627, 70211 Kuopio, Finland. tarja.suominen@uku.fi
authors.forename: Tarja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suominen
authors.forename: Niina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Savikko
authors.forename: Kirsi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kiviniemi
authors.forename: Diane Irvine
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Doran
authors.forename: Helena
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Leino-Kilpi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D009735:Nursing Homes; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010559:Personnel Management; D011209:Power, Psychological