Relationship between Empowerment and Motivation among Staff Nurses in Minia University Hospital

Background: The nursing staff plays an important role for organizational achievement. Therefore, it is very important for the nurse managers to recognize nurses’ work and provide them with opportunities to grow and to look after their comfort by motivated and empowered them. Aim: to assess the relationship between empowerment and motivation among staff nurses in Minia university hospital. Setting: The study was conducted at Minia university hospital .All the hospital units were included in the study. Subject: A convenience sample of all available nurses (no= 150) who are working in units during the period of data collection phases. Tools: includes tow tools, tool І: included two parts: part 1: socio demographic sheet, part 2: Empowerment Scale and tool ІІ: motivationscale was used. Results: near to two third of studied nurses (62 %) have low empowerment leveland near to two third of studied nurses (62.6 %) have low motivation level Conclusions: near to two third of staff nurses have low empowerment and motivation, whilethere werepositive correlation between empowerment and motivation. Recommendations: Educational workshop should be conducted for all staff member about importance of empowerment and motivation,providing access to organizational empowering structures,ensure empowering and motivating factors at work, The salary of nurses should be increased and commensurate with the tasks performed and identify barriers of staff nurses to be motivating and empowering factors at organizational.