POWER AND FEMINISM - A NURSING SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE

Nurse executives are in an influential position to engineer health car e reform and service delivery if their resources are fully maximized. Derived from Rogers' science and Barrett's power theory, this explorat ory study demonstrated a weak relationship between power and feminism in female nurse executives, yet showed a modest correlation between fe minism and the power subscale, freedom to act intentionally. Suggestio ns are provided for further development of the theoretical foundations of a nursing science perspective for nursing administration.