A Study of the Relationship among Professional Commitments, Career Development and Turnover Intention in Hospital Nurses-Sampling from a Medical Center in Northern Taiwan

• Main Authors: Hsin-Cheng Wu, 吳欣宸
• Other Authors: Hung-Hui Li
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68334455311312439381

碩士 === 元智大學 === 經營管理碩士在職專班 === 99 === Nurses for the hospital''s medical care quality, has the most direct impact. High turnover rate will result quality of care in the affected and increased operating costs in hospitals (Ing-Chung Huang, 1996).This study aimed to explore the nursing professional commitments, career development and Turnover Intention Study. Research methods to a questionnaire survey. Survey results will be Descriptive Statistics Analysis , Correlation Analysis, Regression Analysis, single factor ANOVA (Analysis of Variance, ANOVA) for statistics. A total of 282 questionnaires were sent, 268 questionnaires were recovered,11 invalid questionnaires were deducted, 257 questionnaires were received for a 91% recovery rate. The results showed: 1.Professional commitment and career development are inversely correlated to turnover intention. 2.Professional commitment is correlated to career development. 3.Age, job title, years working at a hospital, nursing experience, office division, and level of family support are significant indicators of professional commitment. 4.Age, job title, years of hospital, nursing experience, advanced level, family support and level are significant indicators of turnover intention and career development. Suggestions to the hospital administrators should be taken seriously so that the nursing profession helps nurses to establish career development and develop measures for job enrichment. Nurse staffing must be sufficient and there must be an emphasis placed on staff’s family needs. The competent authority should redraft the standards of nursing manpower, and emphasize nursing education, for nursing students to experience the true meaning of working in the nursing care profession.