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Abstract nurse educators are responsible for the preparation of nursing students for their future profession, they are vital and serve as a critical driving force to lead the progression of the next generation of professional nurses and meet the rapidly changing landscape of nursing practice and education. If nurse educators perceive themselves as empowered in their jobs, they will be more confident in their skills and knowledge, be more engaged in their role. Aim: the aim of this study was to determine relation between nurse educators’ empowerment and nursing students’ clinical competence. Design: Descriptive correlational research design was used to achieve the aim of the current study. Setting: Minia two nursing technical institute, one affiliated to university and another one affiliated to ministry of health. Subjects: The subject of study was include all nurse educators at Minia Nursing technical institutes and 50% of nursing students enrolled at 2 nd academic year 2018-2019 (n=350). Tools: two tools were used to collect data pertinent to the study as: Structural Empowerment Questionnaire; Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire; and Clinical Competence checklist. Results: The study results revealed that there were positive moderate correlation between nursing student clinical competence and nurses educator empowerment at nursing technical institute which r= 0.542 and P – value 0.01 and there were positive fair correlation between nursing student clinical competence and nurses educator empowerment at health technical institute which r= 0.431 and P – value . Conclusion: this study concluded that, there was a positive correlation between nurse educators’ empowerment and nursing students’ clinical competence. Recommendations: Periodic refresher training courses should be provided in order to keep nursing students of updating knowledge, skills, and attitudes regarding to clinical practice and conducting workshops to develop nurse educators’ empowerment. |