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Satisfaction, Commitment and Professionalism of Newly Employed Nurses
Author(s) -
McCloskey Joanne Comi,
McCain Bruce E.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1987.tb00581.x
Subject(s) - job satisfaction , organizational commitment , nursing , work (physics) , psychology , medicine , social psychology , mechanical engineering , engineering
Over their first year of work all nurses employed in a large hospital reported decreased job satisfaction, decreased organizational commitment, and decreased professionalism. This happened with both new graduates and experienced nurses alike; only Master's prepared nurses did not report this decline. The results suggest that employers need to assess the initial expectations of new nurses and either meet more of those expectations or help new nurses form more realistic expectations about their jobs.