A professional commitment scale for clinical nurses: A study protocol

Abstract

Background: As the largest and most fundamental group targeted by programs developed to improve quality of care, nurses should be the focus of attention in the management of human resources in the field of health care. A review of literature on this subject revealed the lack of scales designed for measuring professional commitment in nurses. The present study was designed to develop a scale to measure professional commitment in clinical nurses and examine its psychometric properties. Methods: This study will develop a professional commitment scale for clinical nurses within one qualitative and one quantitative step. The first step of the study will entail a review of the literature on the subject and interviews with clinical nurses so as to develop the categories and the items. The second step, the quantitative step, will analyze the items extracted in the qualitative step, determining the features of the topics and factor structure of the scale. The initial scale will be completed by 300 clinical nurses. The correlation among the topics, the construct validity, and reliability of the scale will also be examined in this step. Results and Discussion: This study will develop an instrument that can measure professional commitment in clinical nurses. Given the lack of instruments for measuring professional commitment in clinical nurses, the findings of this study may be of help to nursing managers, authorities, and the health system in general.

Investigating the Relationship between Professional Status and Professional Commitment of Nurses

“…Furthermore, professional commitment is associated with participation, love, and believe in positive nursing values [2]. Nurses with higher professional commitment are less likely to think about quitting their careers than their pe e rs [29]. The results of this study confirmed this finding, too.…”

“…Professional commitment, as a strong belief and acceptance of professional values, strongly motivate people to promote their profession and maintain their membership in the profession [4,5]. Nursing is a humane profession and needs the people who not only enter the profession with a heartfelt desire but also maintain their commitment to the profession and attempt to improve it [6]. The study of professional commitment in nursing shows that if nurses are more committed to the profession, they will strive more to improve their profession, and more inclined to participate in it [7].…”

Verbal abuse among newly hired registered Jordanian nurses and its correlate with self-esteem and job outcomes

“…Job commitment is defined as "loyalty, the desire to be committed to a profession, and a sense of responsibility toward the profession's demands and challenges" (Jafaraghaee et al, 2017). Job commitment is also affected by verbal abuse, emotional and verbal abuse has negative impact on nurses' work commitment due to higher psychological distress levels.…”

Organizational and Professional Commitment: Evidence From Croatia

“…Organizational commitment can be described as a bond or attachment of the individual to the organization (Mathieu & Zajac, 1990), while professional commitment represents the loyalty or the desire to stay in a profession; as well as a sense of responsibility toward the profession's particular problems and challenges (Jafaraghaee, Ebadi, Negarandeh & Mehrdad, 2017). Both organizational and professional commitments are usually observed through their dimensions: affective, continuance and normative.…”