Healthcare Article Analysis Report - Nursing Empowerment

This report presents an analysis of two healthcare articles focusing on quantitative research. The first article examines the impact of nurse empowerment and decision-making on patient care quality within healthcare reform plans. It defines the hypothesis, independent and dependent variables, and the data collection methods used, including questionnaires. The second article investigates the effect of nurse empowerment educational programs on patient safety culture, outlining the hypothesis, variables, and data collection strategies. Both articles explore the population of interest, sampling methods, and provide relevant references. The analysis covers key aspects such as article citation, broad topic areas, hypotheses, variables, types of data, population, sampling method, and data collection techniques. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the research methodologies and findings presented in the selected healthcare articles.

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Article 1
The impact of nurses' empowerment
and decision-making on the
care quality of patients in
healthcare reform plan
Link: http://iaiest.com/dl/journals/6-
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sep2015/paper4.pdf
Article 2
Amiri, M., Khademian, Z., &
Nikandish, R. (2018). The
effect of nurse empowerment
educational program on patient
safety culture: a randomized
controlled trial. BMC medical
education, 18(1), 1-8.
Link:https://
bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.co
m/articles/10.1186/s12909-
018-1255-6
Point Description Description
Broad Topic
Area/Title
Nurse empowerment on the care
quality of patients
Nurse empowerment and patient
safety culture
Define Hypotheses H0: Nurse empowerment in
healthcare reform plan has a
worthwhile positive influence on the
satisfaction of patients.
H1: Nurse empowerment in
healthcare reform plan does not have
a worthwhile positive influence on
the satisfaction of patients.
The hypothesis is not stated. But
below is an example derived from the
objective of the study:
H0: Nurse empowerment using an
informative strategy improves patient
safety culture.
H1: Nurse empowerment using an
informative strategy does not improve
patient safety culture.
Define Independent variable: nurse Independent variable: nurse

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Independent and
Dependent
Variables and
Types of Data for
Variables
empowerment
Dependent variable: patient
satisfaction
Questionnaire: ordinal scale 1-5
empowerment
Dependent variable: improvement of
patient safety culture.
Nurse empowerment dimensions:
ordinal scale (1-5)
Improvement of safety culture:
categorical variable
Population of
Interest for the
Study
Nurses and patients from the medical
center of Alzahra Hospital
Nurses and supervisors from 6 adult
ICUs at Namzi Hospital, Iran
Sample 150 nurses and patients
- 75 patients and 75 nurses
60 nurses and 20 supervisors
Sampling Method Simple random sampling Proportional stratified sampling and
census
How Were Data
Collected?
Questionnaire with 34 questions were
distributed to the potential nurses and
patients and their views on nurse
empowerment and patients’
satisfaction collected
Hospital survey questionnaire with 42
items in 12 aspects (pp. 4)
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References
Amiri, M., Khademian, Z., & Nikandish, R. (2018). The effect of nurse empowerment
educational program on patient safety culture: a randomized controlled trial. BMC
medical education, 18(1), 1-8.
Jalali, Z., & Shaemi, A. (2015). The impact of nurses' empowerment and decision-making on the
care quality of patients in healthcare reform plan. Human Resource Management, 2(9),
33-39.