| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔英科技大學 === 護理系碩士班 === 104 === Cultural Competence is the kind of ability which tells one’s own culture from others and provides cultural competence care to patients adequately. The ability impacts not only the outcomes of nursing care and patients’ prognosis, but also job satisfaction and professional commitment of nurses. But, the issue has not been well studied in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was aimed at exploring the relationships among cultural competence, job satisfaction, and professional commitment in clinical nurses. The study adopted cross-sectional correlational study design, and recruited 185 nurses who were working for a southern medical center and have over 1 year working experience by convenience sampling. Had employing structural questionnaires, the study introduced nurse personal attributes, Cultural Competence Assessment Tool-Chinese Version, Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, and Professional Commitment of Nurse as measurement to collect relevant information. The results were analyzed by SPSS18.0 for Windows. The study documented that the nurses who possess higher cultural competence ability tend to have higher level of job satisfaction and professional commitment. It may be suggested that, in advance of promoting job satisfaction, professional commitment, and improving consequential retention rate, the executives of hospitals should consider assisting the clinical nurses for acquiring cultural competence abilities in accordance with design cultural competence interventions.
Key words: cultural competence, job satisfaction, professional commitment
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