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Learning Objective #1: understand concept of the professional status

Learning Objective #2: examine the predictors of professional status of staff nurses

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The purposes of this study were to examine the relationship between leadership of nursing manager, characteristics of working staff, physical environment, working device organizational support, human resource management and professional status and to study predictors of professional status of staff nurses working in  a tertiary hospital. Study subjects consisted of 228 staff nurses. Professional  status  were used as a study conceptual framework and developed study questionnaires. The questionnaires of leadership of nursing manager, characteristics of working staff, physical environment, working device, organizational support, human resource management and professional status were tested for content validity and reliability with the alpha of .97, .92, .92, .94, .91 and .92 respectively. Statistical methods of frequency, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple  regression were used to analyze study data.
                Major  findings were as follows:
                1.  Physical environment was not  related  to professional  status of staff  nurses.
                2.  Human resource management, organizational support, characteristics of working staff , working device, leadership of nursing manager  were positively and significantly related to professional  status of staff  nurses, at .05 level (r = .509, .504, .494, .488 and .445  respectively).
                2. Factors significantly predicted professional  status of staff  nurses were leadership of nursing manager , characteristics of working staff, organizational support, human resource management at .05 level. These predictors were accounted for 39 percents of variance (R² =.388).