background and aim: nurses are among the main contributors to patient care and are in direct contact with patients. nurses’ professional commitment can affect their job satisfaction and retention in nursing and enhance patient safety and care quality. therefore, identifying factors behind their professional commitment is crucial. one of the factors which may affect professional commitment is or...

aim: professional commitment has been widely discussed during the last decade. there is no comprehensive definition about “professional commitment in iranian nurses.” hence, this study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the concept of professional commitment in iranian nurses. materials and methods: hybrid model was used in three phases. firstly, in the theoretical phase, data were retriev...

Introduction: One of the priorities of nursing education is to provide solutions to nurses’ questions so that they can remain in their career and render professional services. Committed nurses work harder to improve their careers. Professional status can boost nurses’ confidence. Objective: To determine the relationship between professional status and professional commitment in nurses working ...

Background: Professional ethics as a branch of ethical knowledge examines ethical assignments in a profession and its ethical issues and seeks to provide ways and guidelines that determine these assignments for individuals and professional groups. The overall purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of professional ethics training on job involvement and organizational commitment...

PURPOSE To examine how professional commitment influences patient safety and patient-perceived care quality. DESIGN Investigators for this study used a cross-sectional design with questionnaires. A total of 348 pairs of nurses and inpatients were contacted at two medical centers in Taiwan during the period from August 2007 to January 2008, yielding 284 pairs of completed questionnaires. MET...

Projects are characterized by long working hours, complex tasks and being a kind of temporary organization. As such, work-family conflict is particularly prominent for project employees. This research examined whether and how work-family conflict affects professional commitment among Chinese project professionals. Research hypotheses were developed to explore the relationship between work-famil...