Empowerment and Optimum Use of Strengths Reduce Nurses' Time Pressure

IF 3.4 3区医学 Q1 NURSING Journal of Advanced Nursing Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI:10.1111/jan.16802

Hao-Yuan Chang, I-Chen Lee, Shih-I Tai, Alice May-Kuen Wong, Wen-Pin Yu, T. C. E. Cheng, Ching-I Teng

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Abstract

Aims

To examine how empowerment, strength use, and their interactions with nursing skill level are related to nurse-perceived time pressure.

Background

Nurse-perceived time pressure increases the chance of missed patient care and turnover intention. Time pressure may be reduced by nurses' placement in jobs that make use of their particular strengths (professional abilities, skills and expertise), rather than in jobs that fail to take advantage of these strengths. Empowerment (access to resources, information, support, and opportunities) may also contribute to a reduction time pressure. However, it is not known how strength use and empowerment impact time pressure and how such an impact differs among nurses, indicating a research gap.

Design

This was a cross-sectional study.

Methods

The 501 nurse participants were approached at a medical center located in northern Taiwan. Complete survey responses were collected in November and December 2023. The sampling method was proportionate random sampling, which can help ensure sample representativeness. This study used scales of empowerment, strength use and time pressure.

Results

Strength use is negatively related to time pressure. Nursing skill level strengthens the negative relationship between strength use and time pressure, while reducing the negative relationship between empowerment and time pressure.

Conclusion

This study uniquely highlights the pivotal role of nursing skill level in moderating the effects of empowerment and strength use.

Impact

This study impacts nurse managers by informing them how to devise policies regarding empowerment and task allocation to best utilise nurses' strengths.

Implications for the Profession

It is suggested that nurse managers offer flexibility in their application of nurses' empowerment and strength use, as they may exert varied effects on different nurses.

Reporting Method

STROBE statement was chosen as the EQUATOR checklist.

Patient or Public Contribution

No patient or public contribution.

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Journal of Advanced Nursing 医学-护理

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6.40

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7.90%

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369

审稿时长

3 months

期刊介绍： The Journal of Advanced Nursing (JAN) contributes to the advancement of evidence-based nursing, midwifery and healthcare by disseminating high quality research and scholarship of contemporary relevance and with potential to advance knowledge for practice, education, management or policy. All JAN papers are required to have a sound scientific, evidential, theoretical or philosophical base and to be critical, questioning and scholarly in approach. As an international journal, JAN promotes diversity of research and scholarship in terms of culture, paradigm and healthcare context. For JAN’s worldwide readership, authors are expected to make clear the wider international relevance of their work and to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural considerations and differences.