Effects of nursing professionalism and self-efficacy on job embeddedness in nurses.

PURPOSE

This study aimed to investigate the effects of nursing professionalism on job embeddedness to stay in hospital nurses.

METHODS

This cross-sectional survey recruited 438 nurses working at four general hospitals and three small to medium hospitals in K province, South Korea. Data were collected from June 10 to September 10, 2022 using structured questionnaires and then analyzed with IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 25.0.

RESULTS

The scores, out of 5.0, were 3.30 for nursing professionalism, 3.73 for self-efficacy, and 3.15 for job embeddedness. The three variables were different according to participants' general characteristics. The correlation between self-efficacy and nursing professionalism had a positive correlation to job embeddedness. Nursing professionalism had a mediating effect on the relation between self-efficacy and job embeddedness. Self-efficacy exerted an influence on organizational commitment through the mediating effect of nursing professionalism and is expected to lay the foundation for the promotion of job embeddedness.

CONCLUSION

To increase nurses' job embeddedness, nursing and hospital managers must develop and implement programs that help improve nurses' self-efficacy and nursing professionalism to adjust well in their organization.