Purpose
This study investigated the effect of new nurses' metacognition on their retention intention and the dual mediating effect of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the relationship between those two variables. Methods: Participants included 154 new nurses with 12 months or less of clinical experience working in general hospitals in Seoul. Using a structured questionnaire, data were collected from September 30 to October 29, 2024 and analyzed using IBM SPSS version 29.0 and the Process Macro 4.2 program. Results: Metacognition had a positive effect on job satisfaction (B=0.60, p<.001). Job satisfaction had significant positive effects on organizational commitment (B=0.84, p<.001) and retention intention (B=1.31, p<.001), while organizational commitment had a significant positive effect on retention intention (B=0.65, p=.016). The sequential mediating effect of job satisfaction and organizational commitment was confirmed within the relationship between metacognition and retention intention in new nurses (effect=0.33, 95% confidence interval: 0.03-0.71). Conclusion: The results of this study suggest the presence of a causal structure in which higher metacognition is associated with greater job satisfaction in new nurses; this leads them to commit to the organization, eventually increasing their retention intention.

Purpose
This study examined the effects of role conflict, work environment, and meaning of work on job embeddedness among physician assistants to provide foundational data for their retention and professional development. Methods: A descriptive survey was conducted with 180 physician assistants from six tertiary hospitals in Seoul and Chungcheong Province. Data were collected from July to November 2022. Role conflict, work environment, meaning of work, and job embeddedness were measured using validated scales. Data were analyzed using SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 with descriptive statistics, the independent t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression analysis. Results: Job embeddedness correlated positively with meaning of work (r=.28, p<.001) and work environment (r=.22, p=.002) and weakly with role conflict (r=.14, p=.045). Multiple regression identified meaning of work (B=0.32, p<.001), role conflict (B=0.13, p=.005), work environment (B=0.14, p=.018), and work type (B=-3.95, p=.004) as significant predictors (Adj. R²=19.8%). Meaning of work had the greatest impact. Conclusion: Enhancing job embeddedness among physician assistants requires improving the work environment, clarifying professional roles, and strengthening professional recognition and organizational support.

Purpose
This study explored how Generation Z characteristics—specifically work–life balance, growth needs, and individualism—along with work environment, emotional labor, and interpersonal skills, affect job embeddedness among newly graduated nurses. It also examined whether job embeddedness mediates the relationship between these factors and turnover intention. Methods: A correlational descriptive study was conducted by analyzing survey data collected from 131 clinical nurses born between 1995 and 2000, who had less than three years of nursing work experience in South Korea. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis was employed to identify the independent effects of Generation Z characteristics on job embeddedness, over and above the effects of work environment, emotional labor, and interpersonal skills. Path analysis using bootstrapping method was conducted to examine the mediating role of job embeddedness in turnover intention. Results: Needs for growth and work environment were significant predictors of job embeddedness among newly graduated nurses. Furthermore, the effects of needs for growth and work environment on turnover intention were significantly mediated by job embeddedness. Conclusion: Understanding the characteristics of Generation Z, particularly their needs for growth, along with the work environment, is essential for enhancing job embeddedness among newly graduated nurses. Strengthening job embeddedness can effectively reduce their turnover intention.

Purpose
This study aimed to investigate the effects of job characteristics and professional self-concept on competency in forensic nursing among operating room nurses at university hospitals. Methods: Data were collected from 164 operating room nurses employed at university hospitals. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS 23.0, using the mean, standard deviation, independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Scheffé post-hoc test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression analysis. Results: Professional self-concept showed a statistically significant positive correlation with forensic nursing competency (r=.60, p<.001). The following factors significantly influenced forensic nursing competency among operating room nurses: professional self-concept (β=.69, p<.001), total career lengths of <5 years (β=.21, p=.006) and 5-9 years (β=.20, p=.011), and job characteristics (β=.19, p=.007). A three-step regression model was statistically significant (F=29.74, p<.001) and the total explanatory power of the regression model was 41.4%. Conclusion: This study identified that professional self-concept, total career years, and job characteristics as the most significant factors influencing operating room nurses' forensic nursing competency. Therefore, it will be necessary to develop educational programs to improve professional self-concept and job characteristics.

Purpose
To examine the impact of reading the text of the Nightingale Pledge aloud at the beginning of the shift on nursing workplace spirituality, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction among hospital nurses.
Methods
We used a non-randomized controlled trial design. Forty-four nurses from four wards with similar work environments at M General Hospital in B City were enrolled. The data were analyzed using a x² test, t-test, and generalized estimating equations.
Results
In both groups, we observed a significant group and time interaction effect for nursing workplace spirituality (Wald x²=4.50, p=.015) and organizational commitment (Wald x²=11.33, p=.001). Nursing workplace spirituality was significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group at eight weeks after the intervention (t=-3.41, p=.001). Likewise, organizational commitment was significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group at four and eight weeks after the intervention (Z=-1.97, p=.049; Z=-2.71, p=.007, respectively). Job satisfaction did not significantly before and after the intervention.
Conclusion
Despite the short time commitment, reading aloud the text of the Nightingale Pledge at the beginning of shift had positive effects on hospital nurses’ nursing workplace spirituality and organizational commitment.

Purpose
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between socio-cognitive mindfulness, job stress, social support, and turnover intention among general hospital nurses and identify the factors influencing nurses’ turnover intention.
Methods
A descriptive survey was conducted among 218 nurses from five general hospitals located in G metropolitan city. The participants completed a questionnaire measuring the study variables, and the data were analyzed using t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and hierarchical multiple regression analysis in SPSS/WIN 28.0.
Results
Significant differences were found in turnover intention by gender (t=-2.12, p=.036), family type (t=-3.09, p=.002), work department (F=7.01, p<.001), and work type (t=2.55, p=.011). Socio-cognitive mindfulness was positively related to social support (r=.331, p<.001), and turnover intention was positively related to job stress (r=.347, p<.001). The factors influencing nurses’ turnover intention included job stress (β=.317, p<.001), work department (artificial kidney room: β=-.287, p=.004; emergency room: β=-.219, p=.015), social support (β=-.183, p=.005), and work type (shift work: β=.170, p=.036), respectively. These factors explained 23.4% of the variance.
Conclusion
The findings indicate the need to develop programs to effectively cope with job stress and implement mentoring systems or psychological support programs to reduce turnover intention among nurses at the organizational level.

Purpose
This study aimed to explore the influence of teamwork and grit on job adaptation and intention to remain among advanced beginner nurses.
Methods
A cross-sectional descriptive research design employing a survey method was used. The study involved 203 advanced beginner nurses with 13~36 months of experience working at a tertiary hospital. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and hierarchical regression analysis.
Results
Job adaptation positively correlated with teamwork (r=.58, p<.001) and grit (r=.65, p<.001). Intention to remain was also positively correlated with teamwork (r=.32, p<.001) and grit (r=.59, p<.001). A hierarchical multiple regression model including control variables, teamwork, and grit accounted for 64% of the factors influencing job adaptation. Another hierarchical multiple regression model, incorporating control variables, teamwork, and grit, explained 44% of the factors influencing the intention to remain. Among the related factors, grit emerged as the most influential in regarding job adaption and intention to remain.
Conclusion
These findings underscore the importance of establishing a support system to bolster grit, enhancing adaptation to the job and fostering intention to remain among advanced beginner nurses.

Purpose
This study aimed to determine the impact of work environment, missed nursing care, and non-nursing tasks on the job stress of hospital nurses.
Methods
A descriptive, cross-sectional survey of 164 nurses working in three hospitals was conducted. Data were collected using structured questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis using SPSS/WIN 26.0.
Results
Hospital Nurses' job stress was negatively correlated with the work environment (r=-.37, p<.001). Job stress had a statistically significant positive correlation with non-nursing tasks (r=.34, p<.001); however, it had no significant correlation with missed nursing care (r=.05, p=.552). Regression model analysis revealed that the variables associated with job stress were non-nursing tasks (β=.29, p<.001) and the foundation for quality nursing care (β=-.25, p=.034), which are subdomains of the work environment. In contrast, missed nursing care was not determined to be a significant factor.
Conclusion
To effectively manage nurses' job stress, nurse managers should provide higher quality care by reducing the number of non-nursing tasks and creating a positive work environment, especially by providing adequate nursing workforce and material support.

Citations

• Effects of Role Conflict, Work Environment, and Meaning of Work on Job Embeddedness among Physician Assistants
  Kwang Hoon Seo, Tae Yeong Yang, Nam Gyu Park, Jung Eun Park
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2025; 31(3): 249.     CrossRef
• Comparison of Factors Affecting Delirium Nursing Stress between Nurses in Comprehensive Nursing Care Service Wards and General Wards
  Sumin Gwon, Gaeun Kim
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2024; 30(5): 517.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study aimed to identify the effects of job stress, social support, and infection control fatigue on professional quality of life among nurses in designated coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitals.
Methods
As a descriptive study, data were collected from 157 nurses working at four designated COVID-19 hospitals employing self-report questionnaires. The data were collected from September 1 to September 30, 2021, and analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression analysis.
Results
Job stress, marital status and social support affected compassion satisfaction with the professional quality of life, showing 30% of explanatory power. Job stress and social support affected burnout with the professional quality of life, showing 34% of explanatory power. Infection control fatigue affected secondary traumatic stress in the professional quality of life and the explanatory power was 11%.
Conclusion
Efforts are needed to improve nurses' professional quality of life by preparing and applying interventions to reduce job stress and improve social support for nurses working in hospitals dedicated to COVID-19. Further, nursing efforts and institutional support will be needed to reduce infection control fatigue.

Citations

• Effects of stress on burnout among infection control nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating effects of social support and self-efficacy
  Su-jin Lee, Ju-Young Park, Seo-Hyeon Kim
  BMC Nursing.2024;[Epub]     CrossRef
• Mediating Effect of Resilience on the Relationship Between Job Stress and the Professional Quality of Life of Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses: A Multicenter Cross-sectional Study
  Eunhee Jo, Soon-Jung Hwang, Hyang-Suk Kwon
  Korean Journal of Adult Nursing.2024; 36(3): 241.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study investigated whether the work environment affects nurses' turnover intention with career motivation and job satisfaction acting as mediating factors.
Methods
Data were collected from January 6-25, 2022, using a cross-sectional design. The participants were 205 nurses who had worked for more than six months at four small-to-medium-sized general hospitals in South Korea. Data analysis consisted of descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficients, independent t-tests, one-way ANOVAs, Scheffé test, and mediation analysis using Hayes’ PROCESS Macro Model 6.
Results
The nursing work environment had a significant positive association with career motivation and job satisfaction and negative effects on nurses' turnover intention. The single mediating effect of job satisfaction and the serial mediation effects of career motivation and job satisfaction on the relationship between the nursing work environment and turnover intention were significant. Thus, nurses' positive perceptions of the work environment strengthened career motivation, which in turn increased job satisfaction and reduced turnover intention.
Conclusion
Providing a healthy work environment to nurses can help reduce their turnover intention. Therefore, the government and hospitals should implement human resource strategies to improve nursing work environments and take steps to enhance career motivation and job satisfaction to strengthen nurse retention.

Citations

• Association Between Nurse Turnover and Nurses’ Perception of Patient Outcomes in Acute Care Hospitals in South Korea
  Sung-Heui Bae
  Journal of Nursing Care Quality.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to establish a structural model explaining the factors affecting advanced beginner-stage nurses' intention to continue employment. This model was designed to provide basic data for improving the intention to continue employment among advanced beginner-stage nurses and to efficiently manage nurses as human resources.
Methods
In order to construct a hypothetical model, latent factors affecting nurses' intention to continue employment were identified through systematic review and meta-analysis. As a result of systematic review, hypothetical model was constructed with nursing professionalism, calling, work environment, positive psychological capital, and job satisfaction. Structural equation modeling was then conducted through SPSS 25.0, AMOS 22.0, and Mplus 6.12 statistics programs.
Results
First, none of the pathways affected by nursing professionalism were statistically significant. Second, the final structural model showed fit very well based on the fit indices RMSEA=.062, SRMR=.052, RMR=.048, CFI=0.95, and TLI=0.94.
Conclusion
This study’s results identified that job satisfaction, calling, work environment, and positive psychological capital affected advanced beginner-stage nurses' intention to continue employment. Among these, job satisfaction was the most powerful variable influencing the decision to continue employment for advanced beginner-stage nurses.

Citations

• The Influences of Teamwork and Grit on Job Adaptation and Intention to Remain among Advanced Beginner Nurses
  Seon Kyeong Jeong, Kyoung Ja Kim, Eun Ji Choi
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2024; 30(4): 379.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study examined the effect of missed nursing care on nursing sensitive indicators.
Methods
A nationwide cross-sectional survey was conducted using structured questionnaires. Data of 174 clinical nurses employed in general or tertiary hospitals were collected through proportional quota sampling; the quota used was the location of a working hospital in South Korea. Data were collected through an online survey and snowball sampling from July 16 to July 20, 2022. The collected data were analyzed using IBM SPSS 26.0.
Results
Missed nursing care had statistically significant negative correlations with patient safety management activity and job satisfaction, and significant positive correlation with turnover intention. Significant correlation was not found between missed nursing care and adverse event experiences. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that missed nursing care explained an additional 21%p of patient safety management activity, 14%p of job satisfaction, and 3%p of turnover intention. Thus, missed nursing care was found to be a statistically significant predictor of patient safety management activity, job satisfaction, and turnover intention.
Conclusion
Missed nursing care significantly affects nursing sensitive indicators. To improve positive outcomes and decrease negative outcomes, nurses and nursing managers must make efforts to minimize missed nursing care.

Citations

• Role of Hi-Tech Call Center Employees’ ESG Activity Recognition in Increasing Corporate Performance via Organizational Identification and Job Satisfaction
  So Ra Park
  Journal of Digital Contents Society.2024; 25(2): 503.     CrossRef
• Impact of Emotional Labor and Positive Psychological Capital on the Turnover Intention of Nurses Caring for Patients with COVID-19: A Descriptive Survey Study
  Mira Kwon, Yeoungsuk Song, Majd T. Mrayyan
  Journal of Nursing Management.2024; 2024: 1.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study aimed to identify the factors influencing job satisfaction among nurses working in integrated nursing care wards.
Methods
The study participants were 196 nurses working in integrated nursing care wards at four general hospitals and one tertiary hospital. Data were collected using structured questionnaires from April 11 to 25, 2022, through an online survey. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and stepwise multiple regression with SPSS/WIN 26.0.
Results
The factors influencing job satisfaction of participants were team structure (β=.32, p<.001), role conflict regarding nursing practice (β=-.24, p<.001), mutual support (β=.23, p<.001), master's degree or higher(β=.16, p=.004), and spousal presence (β=.15, p=.005).
Conclusion
The findings of this study suggest that the tasks and roles of team members should be clarified, and a supportive team culture of mutual cooperation should be fostered to improve the job satisfaction of nurses working in the integrated nursing ward. In addition, it is necessary to reduce role conflict by providing support focused on allocating tasks that can strengthen the role of professional nurses.

Citations

• Effects of Shared Leadership and Communication Competence on Nursing Team Effectiveness in Comprehensive Nursing Service Units: Focusing on the Team Nursing System
  Hye Jin Kim, Eunjoo Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2025; 31(2): 143.     CrossRef
• Influence of Job Delegation Preparedness, Individual and Organizational Communication Skills on Job Stress of Nurses in Comprehensive Nursing Care Service Wards
  Soo Jin Lee, Ji Won Kim, Nam Hee Park
  Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing.2025; 39(1): 5.     CrossRef
• Impact of Grit, Teamwork, Organizational Communication Competence, Perception of Patient Safety Culture on Patient Safety Nursing Activities in Integrated Nursing Care Units
  Jeeseon Kim, Haejung Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2025; 31(3): 237.     CrossRef

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to identify the mediating effect of work engagement and job crafting on the relationship between nurses’ Grit on nursing performance.
Methods
The data were collected using structured questionnaires through online surveys from 142 clinical nurses in five hospitals. Data were analyzed using SPSS 24.0, Hayes’s SPSS Process Macro 4.0 version program.
Results
Nursing performance was significantly associated with Grit, work engagement and job crafting. The mediating effect of job crafting on the Grit on nursing performance was confirmed.
Conclusion
These results suggest that it is necessary to develop an intervention program that focuses on improving job crafting. Further, job crafting needs to be considered in developing nursing interventions to nurses' Grit and improve nursing performance for nurses.

Citations

• Mediating effect of grit on the influence of nurses’ silence behavior on medication safety competence: a cross-sectional study
  Haengsuk Kim, Wanju Park
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.2025; 55(1): 81.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study examined hospital nurses’ perception of work-life balance, nursing work environment, nursing organizational culture, and job satisfaction before turnover, and compared differences in variables between current clinical nurses and non-clinical nurses.
Methods
This descriptive study involved 172 nurses with over six months experience, who changed jobs within the last 5 years in G Province. Data were collected from September 5th-22nd, 2022, and analyzed through independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson correlation coefficient using SPSS/WIN 25.0 program.
Results
Total work-life balance (t=3.85, p<.001), work-family balance (t=4.79, p<.001), work-leisure balance (t=2.96, p=.004), work-growth balance (t=3.01, p=.003), and overall work-life balance (t=2.95, p=.004) in work-life balance, the role of professionalism (r=2.05, p=.042) and interpersonal relationships (t=2.59, p=.011) in job satisfaction, the relationship-oriented nursing organizational culture (t=2.68, p=.008), and the nurse-doctor relationship within the nursing work environment (t=2.51, p=.013) were all significantly higher among current clinical nurses than non-clinical nurses.
Conclusion
Hospital-level interventions should be established and implemented to improve work-life balance, the relationship-oriented nursing organizational culture, and job satisfaction through interprofessional relationships to retain hospital nurses.

Purpose
This study aimed to assess the influence of job embeddedness, professional self-concept, and work-life balance on clinical nurses’ workplace retention intention.
Methods
A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted from July 27 to August 2, 2022, involving 296 nurses at a university hospital in Seoul. The questionnaire-based data collected were analyzed using t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regression.
Results
The mean score for intention to stay is 4.92±1.05 out of 8. The mean scores for job embeddedness, professional self-concept, and work-life balance were 2.91±0.48 out of 5, 2.61±0.28 out of 4, and 3.10±0.71 out of 5, respectively. Job embeddedness (β=.17, p=.002) and professional self-concept (β=.42, p<.001) were significantly associated with clinical nurses’ intention to stay in their workplace. Specifically, the “community suitability” subfactor of job embeddedness (β=.16, p=.003) and the “satisfaction” subfactor of professional self-concept (β=.58, p<.001) were significantly related to nurses’ intention to stay. No significant relationship was found between work-life balance and intention to stay.
Conclusion
Nurses’ job embeddedness and professional self-concept significantly affected their intention to stay. Therefore, fostering community bonding outside the organization and increasing professional satisfaction are suggested to increase clinical nurses’ intentions to stay.

Citations

• The effect of dental hygienist work cooperation and compensation satisfaction on job embeddedness: mediating effect of positive psychological capital
  Ju-Eon Kim, Seon-Yeong Kim
  Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene.2024; 24(3): 263.     CrossRef
• A Study on the Effect of the Quality of the Relationship between Nail Shop Workers and Consumers on the Balance of Work and Life: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Burnout
  Hyun-Jeong Lee, Hye-Young Kim
  Journal of the Korean Society of Cosmetology.2024; 30(2): 415.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study is a hypothetical model of the effect of the leader-member exchange relationship on psychological ownership, job engagement, and turnover intention.
Methods
Data collection was conducted for general nurses who have worked for at least 6 months in a university hospital. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 25.0, and AMOS 18.0 program was used to conduct confirmatory factor analysis as well as goodness of fit verification and hypothesis testing for the hypothetical model.
Results
The leader-member exchange had a significant, static effect on psychological ownership. The leader-member exchange relationship did not have a significant effect on job engagement and psychological ownership had a significant, static effect on job engagement. The leader-member exchange relationship did not have a significant effect on turnover intention and psychological ownership and job engagement had significant, negative effects on turnover intention.
Conclusion
Intervention and the development of programs to increase the psychological ownership and job engagement of members are proposed to improve the leader-member exchange relationship through leadership education and training and reduce the turnover intention of nurses.

Citations

• Hospital Nurses’ Professional Quality of Life Model: A Cross‐Sectional Study Based on the Expanded Job Demands‐Resources Model
  Younghee Kim, Mi Yu, Jacopo Fiorini
  Journal of Nursing Management.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
• Mediating Effect of Leader-Member Exchange on the Ethical Leadership of Nursing Unit Managers and Turnover Intention of Clinical Nurses: A Nationwide Survey using Proportional Quota Sampling
  Jihun Kim, Sunmi Kim, Nara Han, Seok Hee Jeong
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2024; 30(1): 42.     CrossRef
• The Effect of Work Value, Psychological Ownership and Nursing Working Environment on Intention of Retention in Hospital Nurses
  Ji Hey Kim, Yoon Ju Cho, So Eun Jang
  Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing.2023; 16(3): 62.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study examined the variations in nursing competence and job satisfaction across different career stages. Additionally, it explored the effect of nursing competence on job satisfaction within each career stages.
Methods
Participants were 468 nurses working at a university hospital in B city. Data collection was conducted using self-report questionnaires from April 1 to 15, 2020. The data were analyzed descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, Scheffé test, and multiple regression analysis employing SPSS 23.0.
Results
General nursing competence improved significantly after the proficiency stage. Care execution and critical thinking were improved as nurses progressed from the novice to the advanced beginner stage. Additionally, communication showed progress in the competent stage. Furthermore, responsibility and self-development were improved after the proficiency stage. Among the sub-competencies examined, self-development, care execution, and communication significantly influenced the job satisfaction of a nurse’s career. Moreover, self-development was influential at all stages.
Conclusion
This study shows that there was no substantial improvement in nursing competencies as they progressed through various career stages. Self-development was the most crucial sub-competence impacting job satisfaction, with the effects of the sub-competencies varying across career stages. These results will aid in planning clinical continuing education and formulating policies to enhance nurse competency.

Citations

• Shift nurses’ work quality and job satisfaction after implementing the Inha University hospital nursing AI scheduling system (IH-NASS)
  Hye Won Kang, Jiyoung Kim, Kyoung Ja Kim, Eun Kyoung Bae, Heesuk Kang, Jeong Hee Jang, Whasuk Choe
  BMC Nursing.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
• The Effectiveness of 360-Degree Virtual Reality-Based Mechanical Ventilation Nursing Education for ICU Nurses
  Doo Ree Kim, Jaeyong Yoo
  Healthcare.2025; 13(14): 1639.     CrossRef
• The Influences of Teamwork and Grit on Job Adaptation and Intention to Remain among Advanced Beginner Nurses
  Seon Kyeong Jeong, Kyoung Ja Kim, Eun Ji Choi
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2024; 30(4): 379.     CrossRef

Purpose
This descriptive correlation study was designed to identify the job characteristics of advanced practice nurses (APNs) and the degree of nursing professionalism as factors influencing the political competency of APNs. Additionally, the relationship between these two factors and political competency was analyzed.
Methods
Data were collected through an online survey of 118 APNs from June 16 to September 16, 2021. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, a t-test, ANOVA, Scheffé ́’s test, Pearson’s correlation, and a multiple regression analysis using SPSS/WIN 25.0.
Results
Statistically significant differences were noted in the political competency of APNs based on age, workplace, position, experience as an APN, political education, and political party membership. Furthermore, political competency positively correlated with job characteristics and nursing professionalism. The factors affecting the political competency of APNs included skill variety, workplace, political education, political party membership, and nursing professionalism.
Conclusion
Findings of this study confirmed the importance of the political competency of APNs. Furthermore, policy efforts to promote independent job development reflecting the job characteristics of APNs and improvement in nursing professionalism are required, and support from professional nursing organizations is needed.

Purpose
This study was to examine the influential factors on patient safety management activities of operating room nurses in general hospitals.
Methods
The subject of this study were 133 operating room nurses of seven general hospitals in B metropolitan city. Data were collected from July 23 to August 14, 2020 using self-report questionnaires. For data analysis, a descriptive analysis and stepwise multiple regression were utilized with IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows version 22.0.
Results
The significant predictors of patient safety management activities were perception of patient safety culture (β=.73, p<.001) and physical burden (β=-.13, p=.025). These variables were found to contribute 56.3% to the outcomes of patient safety management activities.
Conclusion
Based on the research results, to promote patient safety management activities of operating room nurses, it is required to establish active and multifaceted strategies and systems at the hospital level to enhance awareness of patient safety culture and reduce physical burden.

Citations

• Study of Patient Safety Culture Awareness of Radiological Technologists in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Laboratories
  Min-Seo Park, Dong-Ha Lee, Hyun-Jin Jo, Hea-Youn Cho, Yeong-Cheol Heo
  Journal of the Korean Society of MR Technology.2024; 34(1): 9.     CrossRef
• The Effects of a Simulation-Based Patient Safety Education Program on Compliance with Patient Safety, Perception of Patient Safety Culture, and Educational Satisfaction of Operating Room Nurses
  OkBun Park, MiYang Jeon, MiSeon Kim, ByeolAh Kim, HyeonCheol Jeong
  Healthcare.2023; 11(21): 2824.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study examined the effects of work environment, job engagement, and positive psychological capital on hospital nurses’ job embeddedness.
Methods
Participants were 118 hospital nurses. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression analysis using SPSS/Win 25.0.
Results
Mean work environment was 2.70±0.14, mean job engagement was 3.03±0.42, positive psychological capital was 4.05±0.27, and job embeddedness was 3.24±0.31. There were significant differences in job embeddedness by turnover experience and current working hospital type. The factors influencing the job embeddedness of the hospital nurses were turnover experience, current working hospital type, and nurse manager ability, leadership, and nueses’ support in the work environment. It was found that 23% could explain job embeddedness.
Conclusion
Implementing a nurse support program related to turnover experience and type of hospital is necessary to enhance job embeddedness. The results indicate a need to develop a coaching program for cultivating leadership and supporting nurses to improve job embeddedness.

Purpose
This study aimed to identify the effects of empowering leadership and job crafting on work engagement among nurses. Methods: Data were collected from 161 hospital nurses. Data were analyzed using the independent t-test, Mann-Whitney U test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and Hayes's PROCESS macro method for the mediation effect. Results: Empowering leadership and job crafting showed a significantly positive correlation with work engagement. Furthermore, job crafting had a mediating effect on the relationship between empowering leadership and work engagement. Conclusion: A strategy that enhances task job crafting and cognitive job crafting of members by strengthening manager's empowering leadership can lead to work engagement and have a positive effect on organizational performance.

Citations

• Nurses’ job crafting, work engagement, and well-being: a path analysis
  Sujeong Han
  BMC Nursing.2023;[Epub]     CrossRef
• Influence of Job Crafting on Evidence-Based Practical Skills of Dental Hygienists
  Min-ji Kim, Kyu-ri Kim, Yun-ji Kim, Seo-yeon Im, You-bin Cho, Ru-by Choi, Hee-jung Lim
  Journal of Dental Hygiene Science.2023; 23(4): 330.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study aimed to identify the factors that affect intention of retention of hospital nurses by examining correlations between positive psychological capital, job crafting, job satisfaction and intention of retention based on the expanded Job Demand-Resources Model. Methods: A total of 198 nurses with more than 6 months of clinical experience were recruited from a university hospital. Data on positive psychological capital, job crafting, job satisfaction and intention of retention were collected from September to October 2021 using self-report questionnaires. Results: Hierarchical regression analysis demonstrated that the factors affecting hospital nurses’ intention to retain were marital status (β=.15, p=.035) in Model 1, positive psychological capital (β=.18, p=.037), and job crafting (β=.29, p=.001) in Model 2, and job satisfaction (β=.55, p<.001) explained by 35% in Model 3. Conclusion: Based on our findings, employer and nursing leaders should provide job satisfaction programs including offering career growth opportunities and building supportive nursing culture for retention among nurses.

Citations

• Influence of Nurses' Moral Distress and Ethical Nursing Competence on Retention Intention
  Ji-Hyun Choi, Mi-Jin Byun, Thi Ninh Do
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2025; 31(1): 36.     CrossRef
• Effect of Transition Shock on Intention to Stay in Newly Graduated Nurses : The Mediating Effect of Positive Psychological Capital
  Hyuna Kam, Chanhee Kim, Yeonok Yoon, Heeyoung Shin, Junghwa Lee, Myoungohk Kim
  Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing.2024; 17(3): 25.     CrossRef
• The Influence of Positive Psychological Capital, Perceived Value of Work, and Nurse Practice Environment on Retention Intention in Small-Medium Sized Hospital Nurses
  Su Hye Kwon, Miseon Bang, Young Kyoung Kim
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2024; 30(3): 189.     CrossRef
• Affecting factors of clinical dental hygienists’ intention on retention
  Hye-Jin Lee, Hee-Hong Min
  Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene.2024; 24(1): 27.     CrossRef
• Commitment to Organizational Change in Clinical Nurses: A Structural Model Applying Lewin's Change Theory
  Mihwa Hong, Sujeong Han
  Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing.2024; 31(1): 38.     CrossRef
• Influence of Job Crafting on Evidence-Based Practical Skills of Dental Hygienists
  Min-ji Kim, Kyu-ri Kim, Yun-ji Kim, Seo-yeon Im, You-bin Cho, Ru-by Choi, Hee-jung Lim
  Journal of Dental Hygiene Science.2023; 23(4): 330.     CrossRef

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between job stress and turnover intention and the mediating effect of job embeddedness on the relationship among hospital nurses in rural areas. Methods: This is a descriptive study. A total of 277 registered nurses were enrolled in the study from three hospitals in rural areas of South Korea from April 29 to May 10, 2019. The participants completed self-reporting questionnaires, which measured job stress, turnover intention, and job embeddedness, and collected demographic information. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 25.0, for multiple regression, and a simple mediation model applying the Hayes PROCESS macro with a 95% bias-corrected bootstrap confidence interval (5,000 bootstrap resampling). Results: Job stress had a direct effect (c’=0.35, p<.001) on turnover intention. It was also demonstrated that job embeddedness partially mediated the relationship between job stress and turnover intention among the hospital nurses (a ․ b=-0.40 × -0.58=0.23, 95% Boot C). Conclusion: The job stress and turnover intention of nurses in rural areas are not higher than those in large cities. Nevertheless, hospital administrators need to provide a nursing workforce policy to increase job embeddedness and reduce nurses’ turnover intention.

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• Effects of Role Conflict, Work Environment, and Meaning of Work on Job Embeddedness among Physician Assistants
  Kwang Hoon Seo, Tae Yeong Yang, Nam Gyu Park, Jung Eun Park
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2025; 31(3): 249.     CrossRef
• Moderating Effect of Job Satisfaction in the Relationship Between Nursing Work Environment and Turnover Intention: A Perspective From Magnet Hospitals in South Korea
  Wonji Lee, Soyoung Yu
  SAGE Open.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef

Purpose
This study aimed to elucidate the situational context and describe the factors and attributes pertaining to occupational stress among hospital nurses in Korea. Methods: Secondary data from focus group interviews conducted with 26 hospital nurses were analyzed using the content analysis method. Data were analyzed using Graneheim and Lundman’s content analysis method. Results: Based on the job demand-resource theory, the contents were divided into two major themes: the “excessive job demands” and the “shortage of job resources”. The first theme was summarized into the following four categories: excessive workload and work intensity, complex and difficult work demands, hazardous work environment, and role- and relationship-related conflicts. The second theme was summarized into the following five categories: inadequate staffing, insufficient education and training, lack of support system, poor monetary compensation, and low internal compensation. Conclusion: The occupational stress factors of Korean hospital nurses can be summarized as excessive job demands and a lack job resources.

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• Effects of Role Conflict, Work Environment, and Meaning of Work on Job Embeddedness among Physician Assistants
  Kwang Hoon Seo, Tae Yeong Yang, Nam Gyu Park, Jung Eun Park
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2025; 31(3): 249.     CrossRef
• Influence of Work Environment, Missed Nursing Care, and Non-Nursing Tasks of Hospital Nurses on Job Stress
  Ji Yeong Park, Kyoung Ja Kim
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2024; 30(3): 246.     CrossRef
• Service Robots in the Workplace: Fostering Sustainable Collaboration by Alleviating Perceived Burdensomeness
  Eeman Almokdad, Chung Hun Lee
  Sustainability.2024; 16(21): 9518.     CrossRef
• Validity and Reliability of the Korean Version of the Occupational Coping Self-Efficacy Scale for Nurses
  Youngrye Park, Sunah Park, Hee Ran Kang
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.2024; 54(4): 633.     CrossRef
• A Delphi Study on the Changes in Work, Organizational Culture, and Health Issues of Nurses at Tertiary Hospitals in South Korea during the COVID‐19 Pandemic
  MiRa Yun, WonJong Kim, Boas Yu, Eun-Hi Choi, Paolo C. Colet
  Journal of Nursing Management.2024;[Epub]     CrossRef

Purpose
This study was designed to construct and test a structural equation model of nurses’ experience of workplace incivility based on the model of the Affective Events Theory. Methods: A total of 299 nurses from five general hospitals responded to structured questionnaires measuring personality traits (emotionality and agreeableness), structural empowerment, workplace incivility experience, emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction. Results: The hypothetical model showed a good fit with the data: χ² /df=1.88, GFI=.93, CFI=.95, NFI=.91, TLI=.94, SRMR=.03, RMSEA=.05. Structural empowerment had an effect on the experience of workplace incivility among nurses, but the influence of personality was not significant. Workplace incivility had significant direct effects on emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction. The experience of workplace incivility mediates the impact of structural empowerment on emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction. Conclusion: Structural empowerment in nursing unit can reduce nurses’ experience of workplace incivility and emotional exhaustion and increase their job satisfaction. At the same time, nurses’ experience of workplace incivility can increase their emotional exhaustion and decrease job satisfaction. This suggests that nurse managers should consider enhancing structural empowerment and develop programs or activities to improve it and manage workplace inciviltiy.

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The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of job crafting, job engagement on career management behavior among public institution nurses and to investigate the mediating effect of job engagement. Methods: This study was a descriptive survey, with 176 public institution nurses working in seven institutions participating. Structured questionnaires were used, collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics independent t-test, One-way ANOVA, Scheffé test, Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple regression analysis with SPSS statistics 26.0 program. Results: Career management behavior were significantly associated with job crafting (β=.52, p<.001), job engagement (β=.20, p=.015). These variables explained 48.0% of career management behavior. Also, job engagement had a partial mediating effect on the relationship between job crafting and career management behavior. Conclusion: Findings indicate that the relationship between job crafting and career management behavior among public institution nurses is mediated by job engagement. Strategies for enhancing career management behavior among public institution nurses should be considered to enhance job crafting and job engagement. The results can contribute to the establishment of a human resource management system for public institution nurses.

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• Effects of Grit and Nursing Work Environment on Work Engagement in Clinical Nurses
  Young Ju Kim, Hye Young Cho
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2025; 31(3): 312.     CrossRef
• Development and Evaluation of Passion Continuation Program based on GRIT Theory for Nurses in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Non-Randomized Experimental Study
  Do-Young Lee, Nam-Joo Je, Yoon Jung Kim, Chunseon Jang, Hyun-Ju Kim
  Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing.2023; 30(3): 357.     CrossRef
• The effect of grit on the work engagement of nurses: The mediating effects of positive psychological capital and burnout
  Mi Kyung Park, Won Hwa Kim
  The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education.2023; 29(2): 161.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study aimed to investigate factors affecting the job embeddedness of clinical nurses. Methods: Participants were 204 nurses working in four general hospitals. Data were collected from September 3 to October 8, 2020 and analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 25.0 program. Results: The mean scores for positive psychological capital, organizational justice, and job embeddedness were 3.31±0.38, 3.16±0.46, and 3.17±0.38, respectively. The job embeddedness of the participants had a positive correlation with optimism (r=.57, p<.001), hope (r=.56, p<.001), self-efficacy (r=.44, p<.001), and resilience (r=.38, p<.001) in the sub-factors of positive psychological capital. It also had a positive correlation with procedural (r=.58, p<.001), distributive (r=.52, p<.001), and interactional (r=.35, p<.001) justice in the sub-factors of organizational justice. The factors affecting nurses’ job embeddness were procedural justice, optimism, position, distributive justice, and hope. In addition, the explanatory power of the model was 60% (F=39.11, p<.001). Conclusion: The results suggest that to improve the job embeddedness, positive psychology-based coaching and counseling programs suitable for individual clinical nurses, organizational management through transparent procedures and objective and systematic distribution are needed. In addition, a position system suitable for the characteristics of a nursing organization is required.

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• Factors Influencing Clinical Nurses’ Perception of Structural and Content Career Plateau
  Ji Hye Kim, Ji Yun Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.2024; 54(4): 534.     CrossRef
• Factors Influencing Job Embeddedness in Emergency Room Nurses: Focus on Positive Psychological Capital, Gratitude, and Anger Expression
  Sa Rang Joo, Mi-Jung Kang
  Journal of Korean Academy of psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.2024; 33(4): 383.     CrossRef
• The impact of perceived organizational justice on young nurses’ job performance: a chain mediating role of organizational climate and job embeddedness
  Jiamei Song, Xindi Shi, Xiaojia Zheng, Guangli Lu, Chaoran Chen
  BMC Nursing.2024;[Epub]     CrossRef

Purpose
This study was conducted to identify the effects of nursing work environment, job crafting and organizational commitment on nurses’ job satisfaction perceived by nurses Methods: The research model was designed based on Hayes’s PROCESS macro model 6. Participants were 122 nurses from general hospitals. A survey was conducted and data were collected in March 2019. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlations and Hayes's PROCESS macro method for mediation. Results: Job satisfaction showed a significant positive correlation with the nursing work environment, job crafting and organizational commitment. Furthermore, job crafting and organizational commitment had a mediating effect on the relationship between the nursing work environment and job satisfaction. Conclusion: The impact of the nursing work environment on job satisfaction among general hospital nurses was mediated by job crafting and organizational commitment. Considering the mediating effects of job crafting and organizational commitment on the relationship between nursing work environment and job satisfaction, a strategy should be developed for enhancing job crafting and organizational commitment to improve nurses’ working environments and, thus, their job satisfaction.

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• Effect of a Nursing Practice Environment, Nursing Performance on Retention Intention: Focused on the Mediating Effects of Nursing Professional Pride
  Shin Hee Kim, Mi Sook Oh, Yun Bok Kwak
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2025; 31(1): 64.     CrossRef
• Hemşireler İçin Ekip İş Becerikliliği Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanması
  Oya Çelebi Çakıroğlu, Gamze Tunçer Ünver, Naile Boduç
  Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi.2024; 11(2): 260.     CrossRef
• Affecting factors of clinical dental hygienists’ intention on retention
  Hye-Jin Lee, Hee-Hong Min
  Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene.2024; 24(1): 27.     CrossRef
• Nurses Job Crafting
  Sabrein Mahmoud Ali Khalifa Khattab, Marwa Samir Sorour, Sally Mohammed Farghaly Abdelaliem
  JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration.2023; 53(12): 641.     CrossRef
• Effects of Clinical Nurses’ Job Crafting on Organizational Effectiveness Based on Job Demands-Resource Model
  Eun Young Lee, Eungyung Kim
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.2023; 53(1): 129.     CrossRef
• Effects of Job Crafting, Burnout, and Job Satisfaction on Nurses' Turnover Intention: A Path Analysis
  Mihee Chung, Sujeong Han
  Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing.2023; 30(2): 281.     CrossRef
• Concept Analysis of Nurses’ Job Crafting
  Sujeong Han, Eunha Jeong
  Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing.2022; 29(3): 375.     CrossRef
• Association of Job Crafting and Perception of Patient Safety Culture with Patient Safety Management Activities among Hospital Nurses
  Jung Sook Kim, Ji-Soo Kim
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2022; 28(4): 382.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study aimed to confirm the association between job crafting and quality of nursing services among Korean clinical nurses, as well as the mediating effect of work engagement. Methods: Data from 194 hospital nurses were surveyed in this descriptive cross-sectional study. They were collected from May 17 to May 28, 2021, using self-report questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Scheffé test, Pearson's correlation coefficient analysis, and multiple regression using the SPSS/WIN 24.0. Results: Job crafting was positively associated with work engagement (r=.55, p<.001) and quality of nursing services (r=.66, p<.001). Furthermore, work engagement had a mediating effect on the relationship between job crafting and quality of nursing services (Sobel test: Z=2.58, p=.010). These variables explained 45.0% of the variance in the quality of nursing services. Conclusion: The impact of job crafting on the quality of nursing services among clinical nurses was mediated by work engagement. Therefore, to improve the quality of nursing services, it is necessary to develop an educational program to increase job crafting and work engagement.

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• The Mediating Effect of Work Friendship on the Relationship between Grit and Work Engagement among Millennial and Generation Z Nurses in Korea
  Dain Park, Hyunjin Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2025; 31(1): 45.     CrossRef
• Effects of Grit and Nursing Work Environment on Work Engagement in Clinical Nurses
  Young Ju Kim, Hye Young Cho
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2025; 31(3): 312.     CrossRef
• Effects of Nurses' Grit on the Nursing Performance: Multiple Mediating Effects of Work Engagement and Job Crafting
  Jeong-Lim Ryu, So-Hyoung Hong, Yoon Seo Yang
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2023; 29(4): 468.     CrossRef
• Effects of Job Crafting and Job Engagement on Career Management Behavior among Public Institution Nurses: Mediating Effect of Job Engagement
  Seohyun Kwon, Taewha Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2022; 28(3): 261.     CrossRef