Autonomy of Nurses in Their Work and Associated Factors in Nurses of Selected Public Hospitals of Wollega Zones, Oromia Regional State, Western Parts of Ethiopia, 2020

Abstract

Background: Nursing clinical autonomy is a decision made by the nurse about individual patient care independently. The development of the nursing profession needs an increment in nurses' autonomy in their work. Knowing the status of nursing autonomy and factors associated with it is recommended for developing nurses' profession. The aim of this study was to get the status of nursing autonomy and associated factors. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among nurses working in selected public hospitals. For data entry, Epi Data version 3 was used and data was exported to Stata SE version 14 for analysis. To find the associated variables with the autonomy of nurses, bivariable and multivariable logistic regression methods were used. For this analysis, variables with a P-value of