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

Hee-Jeong Kim; Dahye Park

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16991

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

Heliyon. 2023 Jun 3;9(6):e16991. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16991. eCollection 2023 Jun.

Authors

Hee-Jeong Kim¹, Dahye Park²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nursing, Namseoul University, 91, Daehak-ro, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea.
² Department of Nursing, Semyung University, Jecheon-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Job embeddedness; Nurses; Nursing professionalism; Self-efficacy.