Empowerment

External factors
o Relationships with colleagues
Is there incivility? Is it collaborative? Is it respectful?
Internal factors
o Self-confidence and confidence in their abilities
Institutional
o Hospital policies
What does it take?
o Knowledge about and taking action to address both system and
interpersonal issues
o Collaboration and sharing in decision making shared governance
o Involvement in forming institutional policies
o Embracing diversity
The ability to listen to other views see below
o Incorporating divergent and conflicting views and solutions based on
support of others
Empowerment for nurses
o Whistleblowing
It is empowering because knowing you can take issue with
something you can see wrong and have people (lawyers and such)
backing you
But also might be disempowering because you might hurt your
relationship with others and even your job situation
Paternalism is a barrier to empowerment

Address health promotion on the micro (individual things) and macro

(environment, the big things) levels