title: Group Empowerment in Nursing Education.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Nursing education is experiencing rapid changes, as nurses are expected to transform and lead health care delivery within the United States. The ability to produce exceptional graduates requires faculty who are empowered to achieve goals.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Sieloff-King Assessment of Group Empowerment Within Organizations (SKAGEO) was adapted and administered online to a stratified sample of administrators and faculty in American Association of Colleges of Nursing-member schools.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants' scores were within high ranges in both empowerment capacity and capability; however, administrator group scores were higher. Data analyses indicated that administrator leadership competencies were associated with group empowerment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study suggests that empowered faculty and administrator groups anticipate changing health care trends and effect student outcomes and competencies by their interventions. Also, it can be inferred that as a result of administrators' competencies, participants teach in empowered work environments where they can model ideal behaviors.
authors.forename: Mary Louanne
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Friend
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011209:Power, Psychological; D055815:Young Adult