Department of International Business and Trade, Shu-Te University, Taiwan.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2010 Aug 16;10:240. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-240.
Although previous studies proved that the implementation of mentoring program is beneficial for enhancing the nursing skills and attitudes, few researchers devoted to exploring the impact of mentoring functions on job satisfaction and organizational commitment of new nurses. In this research we aimed at examining the effects of mentoring functions on the job satisfaction and organizational commitment of new nurses in Taiwan's hospitals.
We employed self-administered questionnaires to collect research data and select new nurses from three regional hospitals as samples in Taiwan. In all, 306 nurse samples were obtained. We adopted a multiple regression analysis to test the impact of the mentoring functions.
Results revealed that career development and role modeling functions have positive effects on the job satisfaction and organizational commitment of new nurses; however, the psychosocial support function was incapable of providing adequate explanation for these work outcomes.
It is suggested in this study that nurse managers should improve the career development and role modeling functions of mentoring in order to enhance the job satisfaction and organizational commitment of new nurses.
尽管先前的研究证明实施导师制有益于提高护理技能和态度，但很少有研究人员致力于探讨导师功能对新护士工作满意度和组织承诺的影响。在这项研究中，我们旨在考察导师功能对台湾医院新护士工作满意度和组织承诺的影响。
我们采用自填式问卷收集研究数据，并选择台湾三家地区医院的新护士作为样本。共获得 306 名护士样本。我们采用多元回归分析来检验导师功能的影响。
结果表明，职业发展和角色建模功能对新护士的工作满意度和组织承诺有积极影响；然而，心理社会支持功能不能为这些工作结果提供充分的解释。
本研究建议护理管理者应提高导师制的职业发展和角色建模功能，以提高新护士的工作满意度和组织承诺。
