Abstract :
Introduction: The issue of time management is of particular importance in the nursing profession, because the wasted time is actually the time, which has not been spent with the patient and if tasks are forgotten during work, there will be adverse effects on patients. The purpose of empowering the staff is to increase the efficiency of individuals and improve performance in the organization. The current study was conducted by considering the effect of time management skills’ training on psychological empowerment of nurses of a hospital affiliated to Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, during year 2016. Methods: The study was a quasi-experimental research, in which all of the nurses (n = 60)of all wards of the selected hospital participated. Spritzer’s (1995) Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire and Hashemizadeh’s Time Management Questionnaire were used to collect data. The questionnaires were completed bysubjects before and after holding a training time management skills workshop, as an intervention. Time management skills’ training was held as a one-day workshop in two groups, thus all of the nursing staff in different shifts could participate in this workshop. One month after the intervention, time management and psychological empowerment questionnaires were distributed again among the subjects and the data were collected to determine the effectiveness of time management skills’ training on psychological empowerment of nurses. The SPSS 21 software with descriptive, inferential statistical tests and paired t-test (non-parametric Wilcoxon test) were used to analyse the data.Results: The results of the study showed that total mean scores of time management and psychological empowerment were, respectively, 76.73 and 60.38, before the intervention and 83.85 and 66.26, after the intervention. Overall, the results showed that time management skills training improved psychological empowerment of nurses(P 0.05). Conclusions: The findings of the current study indicated that time management skills training, as a method, increased the psychological empowerment of nursing staff and also caused a sense of having a meaningful job, having competence, and trust in thestaff. Thus, this method is suggested as a strategy to increase the adequacy, competence, belief of an individual to his/her own abilities, sense of being valuable, and independence. Also, it helped nurses trust others, work together, and improve theirprofessional performance.
