Article
Nursing
Seda Sarikose, Sevilay Senol Celik
Summary: This study aims to discuss the levels of structural empowerment (SE) and psychological empowerment (PE) among newly graduated nurses (NGNs) and the factors that influence their perceptions of empowerment. The results show that the SE and PE levels of NGNs are moderate and their empowerment perceptions are influenced by various individual, organizational, and work environment factors.
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
(2023)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Anja Terkamo-Moisio, Mira Palonen, Heli Vaartio-Rajalin, Laura-Maria Peltonen, Pirjo Partanen, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Marja Kaunonen, Pirjo Kaakinen, Arja Haggman-Laitila
Summary: This study aims to describe the levels of structural and psychological empowerment of students beginning a collaboratively implemented continuing leadership education program. The results show that nurses and nurse leaders have moderate levels of both structural and psychological empowerment, indicating a lack of status and power to impact their organizations.
NURSE EDUCATION TODAY
(2022)
Review
Nursing
Sevilay Senol Celik, Seda Sarikose, Yusuf Celik
Summary: This study aims to review the relationship between structural and psychological empowerment and burnout among nurses. The results of the systematic review and meta-analysis showed a negative association between empowerment and emotional exhaustion, a moderate and negative association between empowerment and depersonalization, and a positive association between empowerment and personal accomplishment. These findings suggest that empowerment can reduce nurse burnout and improve patient care quality.
INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Management
Malakeh Z. Malak, Ali M. Abu Safieh
Summary: This study aimed to examine the association between work-related psychological empowerment and quality of nursing care in Jordanian critical care nurses. The results showed a positive relationship between quality of nursing care and psychological empowerment, indicating the need to enhance work psychological empowerment to improve the quality of nursing care.
JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Nursing
Arcalyd Rose R. Cayaban, Glenn Ford D. Valdez, Michael L. Leocadio, Jonas P. Cruz, Cyruz P. Tuppal, Leodoro J. Labrague, Jestoni Maniago, Frincy Francis
Summary: This study investigates the empowerment of nursing students and examines the relationship between psychological and structural empowerment. The results show that support received the highest rating from the students, and students who are involved in school organizations have higher scores in different dimensions of psychological empowerment. Age does not have an impact on nursing student experiences or structural empowerment.
JOURNAL OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Leila Karimi, Sandra G. Leggat, Timothy Bartram, Leila Afshari, Sarah Sarkeshik, Tengiz Verulava
Summary: The study found that emotional intelligence significantly predicts employees' psychological empowerment, well-being, and quality of care. This indicates that employees with higher EI are more likely to provide better patient care.
Article
Business
Ariadna Monje-Amor, Despoina Xanthopoulou, Nuria Calvo, Jose Pablo Abeal Vazquez
Summary: Through a cross-country study involving employees in Spain and the United Kingdom, it was found that psychological empowerment partially mediated the relationship between structural empowerment and work engagement. Work engagement was positively associated with task performance and negatively associated with intention to quit. The positive link between psychological empowerment and work engagement was stronger for UK employees than for those in Spain, indicating partial structural invariance in the hypothesized model.
EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Hanaa Faize A. Moubarak, Asyraf Afthanorhan, Eisa Sneitan N. Alrasheedi
Summary: The current study aimed to construct a multicultural psychological empowerment scale for Saudi women and validate its reliability and validity using pooled confirmatory factor analysis. The results showed that the scale had satisfactory reliability and validity, providing an effective tool for assessing psychological empowerment among Saudi women.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Izabela Witczak, Lukasz Rypicz, Piotr Karniej, Agnieszka Mlynarska, Grzegorz Kubielas, Izabella Uchmanowicz
Summary: This study revealed a significant presence of nursing care rationing, which led to inadequate staffing, excessive workload, lack of transparency in handling adverse events, and insufficient cooperation between hospital units regarding patient safety, impacting various aspects of patient safety negatively.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Ching-Pyng Kuo, Pei-Lun Hsieh, Hsiao-Mei Chen, Shang-Yu Yang, Yu-Ling Hsiao, Shu-Liang Wang
Summary: This study found that the community care nursing competency and communication skills of public health nurses play a crucial role in their psychological and organizational empowerment at work. As they age and gain practical experience, their communication skills improve, thereby enhancing their sense of empowerment in the nursing workplace.
Article
Management
Mahdi Sahraei Beiranvand, Shabnam Beiranvand, Shokoufeh Beiranvand, Fatemeh Mohammadipour
Summary: The study demonstrates that authentic and ethical leadership have a positive impact on the psychological empowerment of nurses. For nursing management, it is essential for leaders to recognize the capabilities of nurses and understand how decisions and behaviors can affect them.
JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Rehab Rawah, Maram Banakhar
Summary: This study examines the relationship between empowerment and organizational commitment from a nurse's perspective in the Ministry of Health in Makkah city, Saudi Arabia. The results show that nurses in Makkah have a moderate degree of empowerment and organizational commitment. Furthermore, there is a significant positive relationship between nurses' empowerment and their organizational commitment.
Article
Psychology, Applied
Tobias Dennerlein, Bradley L. Kirkman
Summary: This paper explores the positive impact of leadership on employee psychological empowerment, while emphasizing the moderating role of social structural empowerment. Findings from four studies suggest that lower social structural empowerment may attenuate the positive effects of empowering leadership on psychological empowerment and job performance. The study highlights the importance of considering social structural empowerment in the leadership-psychological empowerment relationship for scholars and practitioners.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Emergency Medicine
Huthaifah Khrais, Abdulqadir J. Nashwan
Summary: This study examined the relationships between leadership practices and structural and psychological empowerment among Jordanian emergency nurses during COVID-19. The findings showed a significant positive correlation between clinical leadership practices and both structural and psychological empowerment. However, patient to nurse ratio was found to be the least significant predictor, highlighting the importance of appropriate staffing ratios in leadership practices.
JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY NURSING
(2023)
Article
Management
Wafa'a F. Ta'an, Mohammed Munther Al-Hammouri, Mohammed K. Aldalaykeh, Mohammad M. Suliman, Raghad Almutti
Summary: The study found a significant positive association between structural empowerment and attitudes towards computer use among nurses. Strengthening access to empowerment structures is essential to increase nurses' work efficiency. Improving empowering structures can be achieved by enhancing opportunities to increase professional knowledge and skills towards computerization.
JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Gerontology
Charlene H. Chu, Rune Nyrup, Kathleen Leslie, Jiamin Shi, Andria Bianchi, Alexandra Lyn, Molly McNicholl, Shehroz Khan, Samira Rahimi, Amanda Grenier, Suzanne Meeks
Summary: Artificial intelligence and machine learning, which are influenced by societal biases, have raised concerns about perpetuating injustice in society. While racism, sexism, and classism have been widely discussed, ageism in AI systems has been largely overlooked. This forum article highlights the presence of age-related bias in AI systems and proposes a conceptual model to understand how digital ageism is reinforced. It also emphasizes the need for ethical considerations and further research in this area.
Article
Health Policy & Services
Kathleen Leslie, Mary Bartram, Jelena Atanackovic, Caroline Chamberland-Rowe, Christine Tulk, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Summary: This study highlights the importance of virtual policy dialogues as a knowledge mobilization strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. By engaging stakeholders in a meaningful way, this approach promotes evidence-informed policy and generates action items based on the knowledge and experience of the workforce.
HEALTH RESEARCH POLICY AND SYSTEMS
(2022)
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Charlene H. Chu, Kathleen Leslie, Jiamin Shi, Rune Nyrup, Andria Bianchi, Shehroz S. Khan, Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, Alexandra Lyn, Amanda Grenier
Summary: This paper aims to explore age-related biases in artificial intelligence (AI) systems and the corresponding legal and ethical implications. Through a scoping review, the researchers plan to analyze the societal, legal, and ethical issues reported in the relevant literature and provide interdisciplinary insights. The findings of this study can contribute foundational knowledge for ensuring the development and deployment of AI in accordance with ethical values and human rights legislation.
JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS
(2022)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Gina Martin, Alina Cosma, Tasha Roswell, Martin Anderson, Kathleen Leslie, Kiffer G. Card, Kalysha Closson, Angel M. Kennedy, Maya K. Gislason
Summary: This report describes a protocol for a systematic review that aims to investigate the negative emotional responses to climate change among young people. The study will examine how negative emotional responses have been defined and measured, the reliability and validity of survey instruments, and factors associated with negative emotional responses among young people.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Kathleen Leslie, Sophia Myles, Tracey L. Adams, Catharine Schiller, Jacob Shelley, Sioban Nelson
Summary: This scoping review aims to examine the literature on how the public interest is protected when regulating health professionals providing virtual care. With the accelerated shift to telehealth and virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care is transforming healthcare. The results of this review may inform future regulatory reform and innovation.
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Health Policy & Services
Christine Tulk, Mary Bartram, Kathleen Leslie, Jelena Atanackovic, Caroline Chamberland-Rowe, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Summary: This study examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the capacity of mental health and substance use health service providers, revealing diverse effects and identifying key factors contributing to changes in capacity. The findings highlight the importance of increasing funding, developing standardized datasets, and prioritizing equity in MHSUH services.
HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Health Policy & Services
Natalie J. Thiessen, Kathleen Leslie, Jennifer M. L. Stephens
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked interest in self-employed nursing and its regulation, with varying levels of regulation found among different jurisdictions. This study aimed to compare the policies and processes of nursing regulatory bodies in different regions to investigate the regulation of self-employed nurses.
POLICY POLITICS & NURSING PRACTICE
(2023)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Gina Martin, Alina Cosma, Tasha Roswell, Martin Anderson, Matthew Treble, Kathleen Leslie, Kiffer G. Card, Kalysha Closson, Angel Kennedy, Maya Gislason
Summary: Climate change poses a threat to the mental and emotional wellbeing of all humans, with young people being particularly vulnerable. There is a need for survey instruments that can measure the negative emotional responses of young people towards climate change, in order to gain a better understanding of this issue.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2023)
Review
Health Policy & Services
Kathleen Leslie, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Anne-Louise Carlton, Madhan Balasubramanian, Raha Mirshahi, Stephanie D. Short, Jenny Care, Giorgio Cometto, Vivian Lin
Summary: This article provides an integrative analysis of the design, delivery, and effectiveness of health practitioner regulation systems, offering valuable themes, issues, and evidence gaps for policy decisions. The study reveals that health practitioner regulation can support government workforce strategies while facing challenges such as cross-border recognition of qualifications and registration portability. Knowledge gaps remain in understanding the outcomes and effectiveness of health practitioner regulation processes.
HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH
(2023)
Review
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Charlene H. Chu, Simon Donato-Woodger, Shehroz S. Khan, Rune Nyrup, Kathleen Leslie, Alexandra Lyn, Tianyu Shi, Andria Bianchi, Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, Amanda Grenier
Summary: This article conducts a scoping review to explore age-related bias in artificial intelligence systems and finds that digital ageism is prevalent and AI bias mainly occurs during the data and algorithm phases of machine learning, which has ethical implications for the field.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Nursing
Kathleen Leslie, Sophia Myles, Sarah Stahlke, Catharine J. Schiller, Jacob J. Shelley, Karen Cook, Jennifer Stephens, Sioban Nelson
Summary: This study analyzes the responses of nursing regulatory bodies during the COVID-19 pandemic, explores how these bodies conceptualize the public interest during a public health crisis, and examines the impact of a public health crisis on regulatory principles. The results reveal that regulatory bodies adopt risk-based responses, demonstrate agility and flexibility, collaborate with stakeholders, value consistency in regulatory approaches, and see the pandemic as a catalyst for innovation.
JOURNAL OF NURSING REGULATION
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Charlene Chu, Kathleen Leslie, Shehroz Khan, Rune Nyrup, Amanda Grenier
INNOVATION IN AGING
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Kathleen Leslie, Tracey L. Adams, Sioban Nelson, Sophia Myles, Aleah McCormick, Maggie Szu Nin Lin, Catharine Schiller, Jacob Shelley
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY (ISTAS21): TECHNOLOGICAL STEWARDSHIP & RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION
(2021)
Article
Nursing
Kathleen Leslie, Meaghan Dunk, Sabina Staempfli, Karen Cook
Summary: This study compared the legislative requirements for registered nurses to report concerns about colleagues to regulatory bodies across 12 Canadian jurisdictions. It found considerable variation in the scope of reportable conduct and the threshold that triggers the reporting requirement. Sexual misconduct or abuse was the most common reportable conduct, with some provinces extending mandatory reporting requirements to concerns about conduct, competence, and capacity.
JOURNAL OF NURSING REGULATION
(2021)
Article
Health Policy & Services
Kathleen Leslie, Jean Moore, Chris Robertson, Douglas Bilton, Kristine Hirschkorn, Margaret H. Langelier, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Summary: This study compares the regulatory approaches to health professionals' scopes of practice in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK, highlighting differences in regulations based on tasks or activities, protected titles, or a combination of both. The research finds that these approaches have emerged in response to similar challenges, with the authors identifying best practices for regulating scopes of practice across different jurisdictions. The implications of these approaches are discussed in terms of positive outcomes for the public, healthcare professionals, and overall workforce optimization.
HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH
(2021)