The document discusses the concept of nursing empowerment, highlighting the importance of personal responsibility, effective communication, and continuous learning in fostering positive outcomes in nursing practice. It emphasizes characteristics of empowered individuals, the role of leaders in empowering others, and provides guidelines for coaching as a means of professional development. Key aspects of coaching include performance improvement, establishing specific targets, and maintaining supportive relationships.

3. Definition
• Being able to take charge of one’s life and be able to make decisions
that are important to the person’s personal or work life
• Encouraging and allowing individuals to take personal responsibility
for improving the way they do their jobs and contributes to the
institution’s goals
• Nursing empowerment means the ability to effectively motivate and
mobilize self and others to accomplish positive outcomes in nursing
practice and work environment

4. Characteristics
of an
Empowered
Person
Energetic
Competent and motivated
Emotionally balanced and committed to the work
High level of job satisfaction
Has a positive self image
Well trained: Update their knowledge and
continuously improve their skills
Confident
Enthusiastic

5. Actions Associated with an Empowered Person
• Take responsibility
• Communicates needs, success, problems and ideas to patients and
other health care professionals
• Decision making
• Comfortable about questioning the existing status
• Self managed
• Seeks feedback and takes corrective actions
• Clear about the task and task requirements
• Choose continuous learning and development as a way of life

6. Empowering
Others
• Starts with communicating encouragement
to others. It is important to communicate
that each employee is valued
• Support others
• Facilitate the process of fitting personal
goals with institutional goals
• Develop a supportive culture
• Focus less on power and status

7. How a Nurse Can Empower Others as a Leader
• Set a vision and explain it
• Define goals to achieve
• Create challenge
• Develop of talent
• Provide resources
• Be a charismatic leader
• Don’t move too fast
• Don’t announce that you are going to empower them
• Focus more on job related activities and responsibilities

9. Introduction
• Coaching is a form of development in which an experienced person,
called a coach, supports a learner or client in achieving a specific
personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance
• The main purpose of coaching is to maximize performance by helping
a client reach their peak potential
• Coaching involves developing leadership, creating self discipline,
building a self belief system, creating motivation and improving self
awareness

10. Coaching Involves the Following
• Help improve performance
• Sets specific target
• Develops a string bond between the person being coached and
him/herself
• Facilitate and collaborate
• Provide specific feedback
• Praise in public but correct in private
• Focus more on the nehavior that needs to be changed and less on the
person
• Observe carefully and listen well

11. General Coaching Guidelines
• Be specific about job performance
• Focus on behavior
• Confront issues ASAP
• Praise in public, correct in private
• Explain the impact of the employees' job
performance on the entire operation and
work group
• Allow some time each day for coaching
• Document coaching sessions