Analysis on career expectations of 228 newly recruited medical staff / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To compare the differences of doctors and nurses in term of career planning and to find out the focus of human resources management for different positions by means of analysis of newly recruited medical workers′ career expectations, in order to provide decision-making basis for hospital management.Methods:A questionnaire survey was conducted on 242 medical personnel who were enrolled in the orientation training from 2017 to 2019, and statistical analysis was conducted using chi square test, t test and principal component analysis. Results:The differences of doctors and nurses in age, education background, original intention of learning medicine, personal career orientation, and career planning objectives were statistically significant. There was a significant difference in the expectation of colleagues′ competency and cooperation between doctors and nurses. Doctors paid more attention to the professional research ability of their colleagues, and nurses paid more attention to cooperation. Doctors and nurses had a higher expectation of their leaders′ moral quality and teamwork consciousness. The difference between doctors and nurses was not statistically significant.Conclusions:Doctors had clear ideas and goals for career path planning and willingness to work hard for professional pursuit. We should pay attention to the physical and mental health of doctors; and to care more the interpersonal relationship needs of nurses, enhance their professional self-esteem, for stability of nursing teams.