Influence of stress resiliency on RN job satisfaction and intent to stay.

Registered nurse (RN) job satisfaction is a major predictor of intent to stay and job turnover, serious concerns to health care leaders. Predictors of job satisfaction include autonomy, control over daily practice, nurse-physician collaboration, transformational leadership, group cohesion, job stress, structural empowerment, and psychological empowerment. In the model of psychological empowerment, stress resiliency is the product of persons' interpretive styles and influences psychological empowerment.

Influence of interpretive styles of stress resiliency on registered nurse empowerment.

The purpose of this predictive, nonexperimental study was to describe the influence of 3 interpretive styles of stress resiliency on phychological empowerment; psychological empowerment has been identified as a primary predictor of RN job satisfaction. Subjects were 142 nurses, randomly selected from 4 unit in 2 hospitals in a mid-Atlantic state. Measures used were Spreitzer's questionnaire for psychological empowerment (Chronbach alpha for this study = .