Department of Nursing, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China.
Department of Pharmacy, Sanya Rehabilitation Center, Sanya, China.
J Nurs Manag. 2022 Oct;30(7):3350-3359. doi: 10.1111/jonm.13782. Epub 2022 Sep 22.
This study aimed to investigate the effect of career identity on career success among Chinese male nurses and to examine the mediating role of work engagement in this relationship.
Recently, with the development of the nursing career, male nurses take up a higher share and play a more important role in the nursing team. With its own particularity and advantages, this group's stability closely relates to the future of the nursing team. Therefore, promoting the career success of the male nurses is essential to the nursing team development.
The data were collected in China. A sample of 557 male nurses completed measures of career identity, work engagement and career success scale. Structural equation model was adopted to verify the research hypotheses.
Career identity was significantly and positively related to male nurses' work engagement and career success (p < .01). And work engagement partially mediated the association between career identity and career success.
Career identity is critical to predicting and enhancing male nurses' career success. Work engagement plays an intervening mechanism explaining how career identity promotes career success among male nurses.
Nursing management should minimize the impact of the traditional concept, implement the gender equality and provide moderate care for male nurses to facilitate balanced development of gender by upgrading the management system. The administrators should carry out skill training based on male nurses' features and the need of the department. Given full play to their respective advantages, male nurses will make great progress in professional development and achieve greater career identity and work engagement. Meanwhile, the further exploration of better incentive mechanism also makes sense in improving career identity and work engagement by the reform of performance appraisal mechanism and salary adjustment according to their ability.
本研究旨在探讨职业认同对中国男护士职业成功的影响，并检验工作投入在其中的中介作用。
近年来，随着护理事业的发展，男护士在护理队伍中所占比例越来越高，作用也越来越重要。由于其独特性和优势，该群体的稳定性与护理队伍的未来息息相关。因此，促进男护士的职业成功对护理队伍的发展至关重要。
数据来自中国。采用问卷调查法，共选取 557 名男护士，对他们的职业认同、工作投入和职业成功量表进行测量。采用结构方程模型验证研究假设。
职业认同与男护士的工作投入和职业成功呈显著正相关（p<0.01）。工作投入在职业认同与职业成功之间起部分中介作用。
职业认同对预测和提高男护士的职业成功至关重要。工作投入在职业认同对男护士职业成功的影响中起中介作用。
护理管理部门应尽量减少传统观念的影响，实施性别平等，并为男护士提供适度关怀，通过升级管理系统促进性别平衡发展。管理者应根据男护士的特点和科室需求开展技能培训。充分发挥各自优势，男护士在职业发展上将会取得更大进步，实现更大的职业认同和工作投入。同时，通过改革绩效考核机制和根据能力调整薪酬，进一步探索更好的激励机制，对提高职业认同和工作投入也具有重要意义。
