Investigating the Relation between Spiritual Intelligence and Psychological Empowerment among Nurses of Faghihi Hospital in 2012

Considering the importance of effective factors on the psychological empowerment of nurses who have always been in the center of attention by educational systems and health care, This study was conducted, aimed at determining the spiritual intelligence and its correlation with psychological empowerment of nurses. This cross sectional-analytic study was carried out on 179 hospital nurses in Shiraz (Faghihi hospital). Data were gathered by a questionnaire and were analyzed using statistical software SPSS. T-test findings suggest that hospital nurses of Faghihi in Shiraz city as spiritual intelligence and psychological empowerment are above of the average of 3.5, however, such results often are not unexpected in society where people believe in religious values. Also the Pearson correlation test showed a significant and positive correlation between spiritual intelligence and psychological empowerment.