Empowerment
- How does empowering and decision-making as a nurse leader relate to client safety outcomes?
- When would you use empowering strategies?
- Why is empowerment so challenging to implement as nurses?
- Next, create an Empowering scenario using the following features:
- The scenario must involve a client safety concern (QSEN)Links to an external site. or issue (e.g., medication administration, nurse-physician communication, patient falls, impaired nurse, adverse event, errors to patients or families, workarounds, near misses, failure to rescue, etc.).
- The scenario consists of empowering behaviors of a nurse manager or charge nurse toward a staff nurse.