| Summary: | 碩士 === 長庚大學 === 工商管理學系 === 107 === Nursing shortage is critical for worldwide healthcare institutions. Such shortage could be alleviated by reducing nurses’ professional turnover intention, which was known related to nurses’ perception of professional competence in their careers. Such perception could be enhanced by nurses’ action to improve professional capabilities. However, no studies addressed how career supports and barriers, nurses’ improvement in professional capabilities, and professional turnover intention were related, indicating a gap. This study examines how career supports and barriers impact nurses’ improvement in professional capabilities and thus on their professional turnover intention. This study used a cross-sectional design and collected 502 representative responses from 2,660 full-time nurses who worked for a major hospital in northern Taiwan between January and March in 2018. Most (97.8%) of them were female. We used the stratified random sampling method to ensure representativeness of the sample. Our items were from Cunningham et al., and Teng et al. Structural equation modeling was used to test the study hypotheses. Human capital, social capital, and discrimination were positively related to intention to improve professional capabilities (path coefficient, hereafter p.c.=.35, .21, and .08, p<.05). Moreover, intention to improve professional capabilities was positively related to action to improve professional capabilities (p.c.=.32, p<.05), which was negatively related to professional turnover intention (p.c.=-.15, p<.05). Most of the career supports and barriers are positive to improvement in professional capabilities, and thus useful to retain nurses in the nursing profession.
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