Effect of nursing workplace empowering model on quality of nursing work life as perceived by professional nurses in a governmental hospital, Cambodia.

Background: Nursing is experiencing an unprecedented shortage of skilled professionals as supply dwindles and demand escalates. For this reason, organizations are diligently trying to understand both what attracts nurses to a certain employer and what retains nurses in an organization. The purposes of this quasi-experimental design were to study the perceptive level of professional nurses and compare the pretest and posttest the use of nursing workplace empowering model on quality of nursing work life. Methods: The Quality of Nursing Work Life Scale was used with total reliability coefficient at = 0.843. Regarding to the study's model, the professional nurses of experimental group have been used for daily work. The Mann-Whitney tested for comparing the experimental group and control group. Moreover, the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test was used to compare the experimental group and control group and before and after implementing the nursing workplace empowering model. Results: The major findings indicated that the professional nurses who used NWEM were significantly higher scores than who did not use the NWEM at .05 level. In addition, the experimental group after implemented the NWEM was higher scores than before implementing NWEM at 0.05 level. Conclusions: The nurses' perceptions of structural and psychological empowerment are significantly increased flexibility, relaxation, free expression, and support. The structural and psychological empowerment had a direct effect on the all variables of the model.

Psychological wellbeing of survivors of the tsunami: empowerment and quality of life.

OBJECTIVE: To compare the empowerment and the quality of life of individuals before and after receiving the psychological services and support interventions. STUDY DESIGN: This quasi-experimental research had two hypotheses: 1) the survivors gained empowerment, and 2) the survivors experienced improvement in their quality of life, after receiving the interventions. SETTING: Krabi province of Thailand. STUDY POPULATION: 593 survivors of the Tsunami on 26 December 2004. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The instrument to assess empowerment was modified from Miller, while the instrument to assess quality of life was WHO-BREF. RESULTS: After the intervention, the overall mean of empowerment was at the maximum level, and revealed an increased percentage of the quality of life at a good level in all four domains. The level of the psychological domain was the highest. CONCLUSION: The sample showed a significant increase in both empowerment and quality of life (p < 0.001). The findings support the hypotheses.