Research on job crafting among clinical nurses in China and its correlation with empowering leadership: A cross-sectional study

This study aims to investigate the current status of job crafting among clinical nurses, analyze its influencing factors, explore the correlation between job crafting and empowering leadership, and provide a basis for formulating effective intervention measures. A convenience sampling method was employed to select clinical nurses from a tertiary hospital in Inner Mongolia, China, from March to April 2025. A demographic characteristics questionnaire, job crafting scale, and empowering leadership scale were used for evaluation. Descriptive statistics, independent sample t-tests, one-way analysis of variance, and multiple linear regression were used to analyze the influencing factors of clinical nurses' job crafting. Pearson correlation was used to determine the correlation. A total of 327 clinical nurses were included in the study, achieving an average score of (47.49 ± 8.68) on the job crafting scale. The multiple linear regression analysis indicated that the degree of passion for nursing work, age, and weekly working hours were the influencing factors of job crafting among clinical nurses (P <.05). The correlation analysis results indicated that job crafting and empowering leadership were positively correlated (R = 0.473, P <.01). Clinical nurses' job crafting was at a moderate level. Nursing managers need to pay attention to the influencing factors of nurses' job crafting, and the positive predictive effect of empowering leadership on nurses' job crafting. It is advised that nursing managers should improve this level through reasonable delegation of authority, thereby promoting the high-quality development of the nursing profession.