Background: The nursing work environments had the characteristics of the workplace that
promote or hinder the provision of professional care by nurses. Positive work environments
lead to better health outcomes including job involvement and readiness for change among
staff nurses. Aim: assess the relationship between professional nursing practice
environment, job involvement and readiness to change among staff nurses. Research
Design: A descriptive correlational design was utilized to achieve the aim of this study.
Setting: The study was conducted at Benha University Hospital in critical care units.
Sample: Convenience sample of (225) staff nurses were included in the study. Tools of
data collection: Data was collected by using three main tools namely; Practice Environment
Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI), Job Involvement Questionnaire, and
Readiness for change scale. Results: The majority of staff nurses (84.0%) reported for
favorable/ positive environment, and majority (87.1%) of them had high level of job
involvement. Also, (73.3%) of them had high readiness to change level. Conclusion: There
was a statistically significant relation between total scores of professional nursing practice
environment, total scores of job involvement, and total scores of readiness to change among
staff nurses Recommendations: Hospital administrators suggested maintaining a positive
and desirable environment for staff nurses to increase job involvement to retain in the
organization to achieve organizational goals. |
