Factors influencing career success of clinical nurses in northwestern China based on Kaleidoscope Career Model: Structural equation model

Abstract

Aim: To explore the relationships among self-efficacy, information literacy, social support and career success of clinical nurses and identify factors influencing clinical nurses' career success in northwestern China. Background: Understanding the influencing factors of career success is important for the professional development of nurses and the improvement of clinical nursing quality. Many influencing factors of career success have been identified, but there is no large-scale research on the relationships among self-efficacy, information literacy, social support and career success of clinical nurses based on Kaleidoscope Career Model. Studies examining the association of the four factors remain limited. Methods: A total of 3011 clinical nurses from 30 hospitals in northwestern China were selected in the cross-sectional survey, and the response rate was 94.71%. The clinical nurses completed the online self-report questionnaires including self-efficacy, information literacy, social support rating scale and career success scale. The data were analysed by SPSS23.0 statistical software using t test, analysis of variance, Pearson's correlation and multiple linear regression. Structural equation model (SEM) was used to analyse the influencing factors of career success using Mplus 8.3. Results:The career success of clinical nurses in northwestern China was at a medium level. The linear multivariate regression analysis showed that self-efficacy (β = .513), social support (β = .230), information support (β = .106), information consciousness (β = À.097), information knowledge (β = .067), information ethics (β = À.053), hospital grade (β = .118), marital status (β = À.071) and age (β = À.037) entered Chao Wu and Lin-yuan Zhang contributed equally to this work.

Psychological Resilience and Career Success of Female Nurses in Central China: The Mediating Role of Craftsmanship

“…Moreover, with the improvement of titles, the salary and competitiveness of nurses within the organization will be further improved, which is more conducive to their career development and therefore they have higher career success scores. In the score of career success of administrative position, it can be found that nurses with administrative positions have better scores than general nurses ( Wu et al, 2022 ). This may be due to the fact that head nurses, as management staff, have a certain level of status in the hospital and have the opportunity to participate in hospital policy-making, and that nurses with administrative positions have relatively more time and opportunities to study and pursue further training, so as to improve their career success.…”

“…It includes both subjective and objective success, and is an important indicator and variable to evaluate individual career development ( Seibert et al, 1999 ; Eby et al, 2003 ). Currently, studies on career success are mostly focused on the field of management, but in recent years, the number of studies on career fulfillment in the field of nursing field has gradually increased ( Wu et al, 2022 ). Previous studies have shown that career success has a significant positive predictive effect on nurses’ career identity and individual values, which is conducive to motivating nurses’ enthusiasm for work, improve the quality of nursing service, reduce the turnover rate of nurses and stabilize the nursing team ( Dan et al, 2018 ; Zamanzadeh et al, 2019 ; Wu et al, 2020 ).…”

“…Moreover, research has found that nurses’ career success is generally low in the predominantly female Chinese nursing workforce. Therefore it is still necessary to strengthen the research on nurses’ career success ( Huang et al, 2019 ; Wu et al, 2022 ). In the current nursing practice environment in China, focusing on the career success development of female nurses and seeking their career-family balance can effectively reduce the turnover rate and stabilize the nursing workforce.…”

Psychosocial factors associated with career success among nurses: A latent profile analysis

“…Furthermore, one of the few studies adopted a variable‐centred approach focusing on the relationships between individual variables (e.g. career success and related factors; Wu et al, 2022). This approach is limited to reflecting various aspects of career success and restricts appropriate interventions.…”

“…Data on other sociodemographic factors (i.e. age, sex and education) were also collected on the basis of previous studies (Wang et al, 2019; Wu et al, 2022).…”