The structural equation model of nurses' career growth, work support and family support / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the effort of family support and work support on nurses' career growth.Methods Work-family support scale and career growth scale were used to investigate a total of 457 registered nurses from five tertiary first-class hospitals in Tianjin city.Results The total score of career growth was (2.47± 0.50),and the level of nurses' career is in the medium range.The total score of family support was (5.16±0.94) and work support was (4.07±0.99).Both work support and family support showed positively influence nurses' career growth directly,and family support could be a mediating variable between work support and career.Conclusion Work support can accelerate nurse career growth,and work support also can promote career growth by increase family support.Both the organization and the leaders should pay attention to provide more support to the nurses,and care about their work and life as to improve the speed of nurses' career growth.