DESIGNING A MODEL FOR EMPOWERING NURSES BASED ON MANAGERIAL AND INDIVIDUAL FACTORS MEDIATE INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE

 The ability and performance of nurses as the largest professional group of health care organizations has a great impact on the productivity of health care organizations.

This study is a descriptive-correlational research and applied in terms of purpose. The study population was nurses working in social security medical centers of West Azerbaijan province. Data were selected as a random cluster of 250 people using standard questionnaires whose validity and reliability had already been confirmed. In the present study, to analyze the data in the descriptive statistics section, statistical indicators such as tables of mean, frequency, percentage of frequency, mean and standard deviation and in the inferential statistics section to test the conceptual model of the research, structural equation modeling method was used by Smart PLS 2 software.

According to the results,the relationship between organizational learning, transformational leadership style, personal motivation with positive and empowerment and also the relationship between training adequacy, organizational learning and motivation through individual performance with positive and empowerment is significant. The highest impact coefficients are related to the effect of organizational learning on empowerment (0.507) and individual motivation on individual performance (0.222). P >05

 According to the results of the present study, managers of the Social Security Organization in order to be more successful in designing nursing empowerment programs should focus on organizational learning components and individual motivation that are stronger predictors of empowerment.