The relationship among the factors affecting on professional empowerment of the nursing professionals in Sri Lanka

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationships among the Career Choice -CC, Continuous Education- CE and the Social Support SS towards the professional empowerment-PE of the registered nurses in Sri Lanka who is currently following their undergraduate studies. A cross sectional survey design was used with 191 female nurses in state hospitals in Sri Lanka. All these factors having a moderate association with the professional empowerment. It was noticed that there is a strong joint association between the individual factors and professional Empowerment with the multiple correlation “R” value of 0.636. R square of 0.405 indicates that 40.5% of professional empowerment has been covered by this model.