Abstract
Nurses are key staff members of health-care organizations. Nurse engagement directly influences quality of care and organizational performance. The purpose of the present study was to understand the state of work engagement and explore its predictors among registered nurses in China by using a descriptive, cross-sectional survey design (n = 1065). Work engagement was measured with the Chinese version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. The results showed that the average work engagement of Chinese nurses was 3.54 (standard deviation = 1.49), and that nurses' age (β =.16, t = 5.32), job characteristics (β =.33, t = 9.43), and practice environment (β =.23, t = 6.59) were significant predictors of work engagement. Thus, nurse leaders should be encouraged to shape motivational job characteristics and create supportive practice environment so as to increase nurses' work engagement.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 415-421 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Nursing and Health Sciences |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
Keywords
- China
- job characteristics, nursing, work engagement, work environment
