THE INFLUENCE OF NURSE MANAGERS’ACTIONS ON NURSES’ AUTONOMY IN LAHORE, PAKISTAN

Abstract

Introduction:

The managers’ actions are fundamental to ensuring their subordinates’ acceptance of change, and to motivating them to achieve established goals as well as a high quality of care. Nurse Managers’ actions in the current study are operationally defined as actions that are conductive for nurses' autonomy. In this respect, nurses’ autonomy is defined as a process of allowing nurses to have substantial control over professional practice, including significant room for exercise of their judgment. Many researchers concluded that nurse managers’ practices have been shown to have an effect on nurses’ working environment and their performance, the quality of care delivered the use of research and on their continuing professional development.

Aim of the study: The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of nurse manager actions on nurses’ autonomy in Lahore, Pakistan.

Subjects:

The subject consisted of all nursing staff who is working all units of social security hospital Lahore).

Tools of the study:

Two tools were used in this study: a) The Nurse Managers Actions items, b) autonomy questionnaire which is divided into two parts one for patient care autonomy and the other for unit operation autonomy and a part added for demographic characteristics of participants.

Results: Nurses highly scored their nurse managers’ action (24.2 ± 12.1), while the patient care autonomy was scored the lowest with a mean percentage of (47.5 ± 22.5). The nurse managers’ actions had proved to be positively correlated with patient care autonomy (p= 0.242), and unit operation autonomy (p= .000) as well as the total nurses’ autonomy (p= 0.009).

Conclusion: