The Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire II (CWEQ-II) was used to measure nurse empowerment while the Press Ganey Associates Patient Survey was used used to measure patient satisfaction. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to test the CWEQ-II scale. The CWEQ-II alpha result was .778. Acceptable Cronbach's alpha values ranged from 0.803 to 0.851. Using conduct validity the results were acceptable. Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient was used to calculate patient satisfaction with nurse empowerment. The result showed a significant positive correlation between the CWEQ-II score and Press Ganey overall satisfaction scores (r = 0.052; p < 0.05). Cronbach's alpha value was used and the result was a reliability value of 0.98. The instruments used in the study were previously made before the study was conducted. A physiological measure was not used in this study (Donahue et al.,
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