@article{Neves_Ribeiro_2016, title={Perception of nurses’ Empowerment in healthcare organization settings}, url={https://revistas.rcaap.pt/millenium/article/view/10315}, DOI={10.29352/mill0201.14.00093}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> The concept of Empowerment in nursing has been increasingly used and analyzed in academic literature. It is a concept that nurses, leaders and managers of healthcare institutions should be interested in and should greatly explore. The perception that nurses have of Empowerment plays a decisive role in the organizational results, in the increase in professional autonomy, in collective and individual power increment and in patients’ healthcare providing. Objectives: To evaluate nurses’ perception of Empowerment (Psychological and Structural); to identify the factors that will influence this kind of perception and to reflect on the consequences of that perception.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> Quantitative study, based on a sample composed of 269 nurses, mainly female (76,6%), aged between 21 and 59, with a 40,36 years old average age. 68.8% of the participants have a college degree and are working in a hospital in the Beira Alta region, in Portugal.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> In nurses, the perception of Psychological Empowerment is associated with the perception of Structural Empowerment. Older nurses and nurses who have a longer nursing career show higher competence and lower opportunity. Nurses who have spent a longer period of time in their current services show higher competence but less opportunity, information, support and, globally, a lower Structural Empowerment. In this professional category, specialist nurses’ opinion about information, resources and informal power is quite different from the one felt by the other nurses.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Nurses show high levels of Psychological Empowerment and low levels of Structural Empowerment.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Millenium - Journal of Education, Technologies, and Health}, author={Neves, Nuno and Ribeiro, Olivério}, year={2016}, month={Sep.}, pages={179–190} }