The Relationship between the Empowerment of Head Nurses and Safety Management of Nursing Service System in Secondary Care Hospital, the Lower North Region

Abstract

The purposes of this descriptive research were: (1) to study the empowerment of head nurses in secondary care hospital (2) to investigate the safety management of nursing service system in secondary care hospital (3) to determine the relationship between the empowerment of head nurses and safety management of nursing service system. This study was conducted in secondary care hospital, the lower northen region.One hundred and fifty-five professional nurses working at secondary care hospital, the lower northern region were selected by stratified random sampling technique. Research tools were questionnaires including three parts: (1) demographic data (2) empowerment of head nurses and (3) the safety management of nursing service system. These tools were tested for content validity. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of the second and third part were .96 and .96 respectively. Statistical devices used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s product- moment correlation coefficient. The results were as follows; (1) The empowerment of head nurses in secondary care hospital, the lower north region was at a high level. (2) The safety management of nursing service system was at a high level.; (3) there was a statistically significant positive relationship at the high level between the empowerment of head nurses and safety management of nursing service system in secondary care hospital, the lower north region (r = .73, p < .01).