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      The impact of staff nurse empowerment on person-job fit and work engagement/burnout.

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      Nursing administration quarterly

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          Workplace empowerment is an important strategy for creating positive nursing work environments in a time of a severe nursing shortage. The purpose of this study was to test a model linking staff nurse perceptions of empowerment to their perceived fit with 6 areas of work life and work engagement/burnout using Kanter's work empowerment theory. We tested the model in a cross-sectional correlational survey design with a random sample of 322 staff nurses in acute care hospitals across Ontario. Overall, staff nurses perceived their work environment to be only somewhat empowering. Fifty-three percent reported severe levels of burnout. Overall empowerment had an indirect effect on emotional exhaustion (burnout) through nurses' perceived fit in 6 areas of work life. The final model fit statistics revealed a good fit (chi2 = 32.4, df = 13, GFI = 0.97, IFI = 0.97, CFI = 0.97, RMSEA = 0.07). These findings have important implications in the current nursing shortage.

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          Journal
          Nurs Adm Q
          Nursing administration quarterly
          0363-9568
          0363-9568
          November 2 2006
          : 30
          : 4
          Affiliations
          [1 ] School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. hkl@uwo.ca
          Article
          00006216-200610000-00008
          10.1097/00006216-200610000-00008
          17077717
          6ed8acfc-04c3-46cf-b2f5-4e13b5c8a4b3
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