2016 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 51-58
The purpose of this study is to clarify the factors related to the professional identity of novice visiting nurses. The questionnaire consisted of Nursing Professional Identity Scale, individual factors (individual attributes, desire to resign from the job, state of burnout, etc.) and environmental factors (work situation, ease of attending nursing training, job satisfaction, emotional support network in the workplace, etc.). We used Nursing Professional Identity Scale in order to measure the professional identity of novice visiting nurses. The subjects were 135 novice visiting nurses. Data were analyzed to multiple regression analysis (step-wise). The results showed that job satisfaction and desire to resign from the job were significantly related to the professional identity of novice visiting nurses. Those factors were related to ease of attending the nursing training, having vacation, and state of burnout. Job satisfaction was related to emotional support network in the workplace.
In this research, it was found that ease of attending the nursing training and access to an emotional support system in the workplace, were co-related with a work system in which the ideas about work-life balance of each nurses are associated with the professional identity of novice visiting nurses.
