The Relationship between Staff Nurses’ Decisional involvement and their Work Engagement | ||
| Alexandria Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 70-81 PDF (410.32 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asalexu.2023.300010 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Taghreed Ahmed Ebrahim* 1; Neamat Mohamed El Sayed* 1; Nadia Hassan Ali2 | ||
| 1Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University. | ||
| 2Nursing Administration,Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Health care system has undergoing fundamental and structural changes all over the world due to rapid advancement in medical and nursing technologies, along with change in patients, need and financial resources. This has created an environment of uncertainty that require redesigning health care structure and process of care. In this concern, nurses play vital role in coping and implementing these changes. So, there is a need to change both nurses’ attitudes and behaviors toward their decisional involvement and work engagement. Aim: Assess the relationship between nurses' decisional involvement and work engagement. Setting: The study was conducted in Hosh Essa Hospital with bed capacity 328 beds affiliated to Ministry of Health and Population. Subjects: All staff nurses (N=194) who are working in the previously mentioned settings who were available at the time of data collection. Tools: Two tools were used in this study. Tool (1): DI Scale: This tool was developed by Havens and vasey (2005), to measure actual and preferred decisional involvement of staff nurses and managers on nursing units. It consists of six dimensions with 21 items namely: unit staffing, quality of professional practice, professional recruitment, unit governance and leadership, quality of support staff practice, and collaboration/liaison activities. Tool (2): Utrecht Work Engagement Scale: This tool was developed by Schaufeli and Bakker (2008) to measure unique positive fulfilling and work-related state of mind. It contains 17 items divided into three dimensions with namely: vigor, and absorption, dedication. Results and Conclusion: The result of the present study concluded that positive significant correlation between DI and work engagement. Also, this study illustrated that staff nurses perceived moderate mean percent score of DI as well as moderate mean percent score of staff nurses work engagement. Recommendation: This study suggested an implementation of regular training programs to keep nurses up to date regarding decisional involvement to work engagement. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Nurses; Decisional Involvement; Work Engagement | ||
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