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Abstract
Nurses are the backbone of any health care organization , nursing is one of the most critical professions in the health sector and nurses considered as largest groups of health care professionals .The development of professional identity can contribute to nurses’ autonomy, professional self-confidence, and ability to communicate effectively, all of which are likely to increase career satisfaction . Nursing career satisfaction has become an issue of international importance it relates to nurses healthy , productivity, and good job performance. Which that higher nurse satisfaction is associated with better quality and safety of care for patients. It is important to retain nurses working in intensive care units and better understand the factors related to satisfaction because this units help nurses to develop independent field of nursing and at the same time challenges in this profession are growing. So if intensive care units nurses were enabled to more fully define and describe their professional roles and identity and career satisfaction would be significantly improved. So, the present research aimed to assess the professional identity and career satisfaction among intensive care nurses. A descriptive-correlation design was used. The present study was conducted in Intensive Care Units at Tanta University Main Hospitals including Pediatric, Neonatal, Neurological , Cardiac, and Medical Intensive Care Unit . The subjects consisted of all nurses (n= 320))who are working in the previous setting and available at the time of data collection. To achieve the aim of the study two tools were used; Tool I: Nurses’ Professional Identity Questionnaire: It consisted of two parts as follow: Part 1: Nurses‘ demographic data: Included age, gender, marital status, education level, unit name, attending previous training program through the last year. Part 2: Nurses‘ Professional Identity Questionnaire: It consisted of 49 items categorized into three subscales: Professional image (16 items), Assertiveness (20 items), Self- responsibility (13 items). Tool II: Career Satisfaction Questionnaire: It contained 16 items divided into two dimensions of career satisfaction as follows: intrinsic career satisfaction included 9 items, and extrinsic Career satisfaction included 7 items Tools (I & II )were presented to a jury of five experts to check content validity and applicability of each tool . Necessary modifications were done . A pilot study was carried out on a sample (10%) of 32 of nurses, and they not excluded from the main study sample during the actual collection of data to test the tools for clarity and applicability. Results of the present study revealed that: -The age of nurses ranged from 30<40 years . near half (48.1%) of nurses of them with years of experience more than 10 years. Regarding Educational level 48.1% of nurses had Bachelor degree and 30.9% of them had secondary nursing diploma .Also (90.3% , 89.1%) of them were married, and females. As well as 32.8% and 28.8% of nurses distributed in Neonatal ICU and Cardiac ICU. -High percent 84.7% of nurses had a high level of overall professional identity. While, only 1.3 % of them had a low level of overall professional identity. - -Around three quarters (72.2%) of nurses had satisfactory level of overall career satisfaction . While , only 27.8% of them had unsatisfactory level of overall career satisfaction.- - Regarding professional identity dimensions. that high percent (91.9% , 83.1%, 81.3%)of nurses had a high level of professional assertiveness, selfresponsibility, and professional image dimensions of professional identity, respectively. -Regarding career satisfaction dimensions. The that around three quarters (73.1, 71.9%) of nurses had satisfactory level of extrinsic and intrinsic career satisfaction. -Regarding the correlation between overall nurses‘ professional identity and overall career satisfaction .It‘s obvious that there was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between overall nurses‘ professional identity and overall career satisfaction (r= 0.265* and p< 0.001**). -Regarding relation between level of nurses‘professional identity and demographic data. only that there was statistically significant relation between nurses’ professional identity and their unit name, and monthly income (P < 0.001**). While, there is no statistically significant relation between overall nurses’ professional identity and their gender, educational qualification, attendance of previous training program at the last year, age, marital status, and years of experience. -Regarding relation between level of nurses’ career satisfaction and demographic data. only that there was statistically significant relation between nurses’ career satisfaction and their unit name, and years of experience (P < 0.001**) . While, there is no statistically significant relation between overall nurses’ career satisfaction and their monthly income , educational qualification, attendance of previous training program at the last year, age, marital status, and gender. Based on the results of this study, it was recommended that: - Create coaching and mentoring program to provide resources and support needed by nurses to promote professional development to enhance nurses‘ professional identity and their career satisfaction. - Provide nurses with workshops, in-service programs, and other nursing education activities in various work settings to improve their development that enhances professional identity. - Concern updating their nursing information and try to know more about morally and humanely of their profession to refuse participate in nonethical or potentially hazard procedures.