Nurses’ Self-efficacy and Professional Identity in to Occupational Commitment

Abstract

Background: Nurses play major roles in the management of care, recovery plan and overall patient care. It requires dynamic role in providing awareness. Nurses globally experience shortage of staff nurses that need to be address the rest of the world, China is struggling with a severe shortage of Registered Nurses. The ongoing nurse shortage is raising questions about the impact of nurse turnover on the well-being of nurses, quality of patient care and the healthcare system. Nurse self-efficacy impacts the clinical roles in the hospital to perform action toward specific circumferences which is important core in facing new challenges in the area. The higher the self-efficacy the more nurse is satisfied on their work and enhance professional identity. Self-efficacy is important in handling stressful situation like pressure in work. Having low self-efficacy can cause stress to the work of the nurse and will lead to burn out. The correlation of professional identity and self-efficacy in patient care need further study. Purpose: The aim of the study is to determine the relationship of nurse self-efficacy and professional identity into occupational commitment among Chinese Nurse in Jiangsu, China. The findings provide evidence for clinical practice and to reduce nurse turn over in the hospital setting. This will help to create initiative for strengthening nurses’ professional identity. Methods: The utilized the quantitative design, specifically the descriptive-correlational research design.  A Total of 278 Registered nurses in Jiangsu, China who participated on the study. Results: It shows that Self-Efficacy and Occupational Commitment, strong and statistically significant positive correlations across all domains of occupational commitment. The Professional Identity and Occupational Commitment consistently very strong and statistically significant positive correlations across domain. Conclusion: Self- efficacy has proven to enhance occupational commitment and better confidence of nurses in their own abilities in performing task while professional identity upholds determinants in the internalization of professional values that promote sense of belonging to the profession which greatly influence in long term commitment in the occupation.