International Journal of Nursing Care
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 2

The magnet model: A solution to nursing empowerment in Pakistan

Student MScN, Aga Khan University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Karachi, Pakistan

*Corresponding author: Faisal Nadeem Student MScN (faisaltheprofessional@gmail.com) Aga Khan University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Karachi, Pakistan

Online published on 16 August, 2018.

Abstract

Nursing is a challenging job and empowering employees at both individual and organizational level is becoming important. Empowerment encourages employees to take initiatives and react to job related challenges in creative ways. Empowered employees are enthusiastic, well-organized at work and job satisfied. According to Moore, a blend of Structural-empowerment and Magnet-model empowers workforce through opportunities, resources, information and support by formal and informal power, however, transformational leaders lend a hand to attain organizational vision.

Keywords

Job satisfaction, power, empowerment, resources, support, opportunity, information, transformational leadership