relationship between the job rotation efficacy and psychological empowerment of iranian nurses

Background & aim: addressing the influential factors associated with the psychological empowerment of nurses has high importance. we aimed to assess the relationship between job rotation and the psychological empowerment of nurses working in the teaching hospital of mazandaran university of medical sciences (sari, iran). methods & materials: this is a cross-sectional study that was conducted in 2016. 277 nurses working in the teaching hospital of mazandaran university of medical sciences were selected as sample size using simple random sampling method. spritzer’s psychological empowerment questionnaire and nurses’ view to job rotation efficacy questionnaire were used. the data were analysed by means of spss 18.0 by using descriptive and inferential tests (two-way anova with tukey test, pearson correlation and multiple regression) results: in this study, 75% and 25% of nurses were female and male, respectively with mean age of 32.6 (sd=2.26). the mean score of overall psychological empowerment was obtained 69.51 (sd=3.95) while the mean score of job rotation efficacy was obtained 61.2 (sd=2.064). also results showed that job rotation of nurses was related with psychological empowerment (r=0.65, p<0.05). conclusion: the obtained results indicate that planning job rotation efficacy for nursing staff can results better psychological health. also more researches is recommended in future for earning better results.