Nurses’ Personal Career Tactics, Planning, And Organizational Career Management To Career Stagnation: The Mediating Role Of Career Commitment

Abstract

Introduction: Clinical nurses working in critical care units operate in highly demanding environments that require advanced clinical competencies, rapid decision-making, and continuous professional development. Effective career management plays a crucial role in supporting nurses’ professional growth, and career stagnation is a precursor to undesirable workplace attitudes, including decreased job motivation, decreased self-belief, and reduced organizational engagement.

Objective: To examine the relationship between personal career tactics, planning, and organizational career management to career stagnation among Critical Care Units Nurses: The mediating role of career commitment.

Study design: descriptive correlational study methodology.

Setting: The study was done in all the Critical Care units at Main Assiut University Hospital.

Subject: All bedside nurses No.= (262).

Results: Over 50% of the surveyed nurses experienced a high level of career stagnation. Moreover, a statistically significant negative association was seen among career management, career commitment, and career stagnation.

Conclusions: Statistical analysis revealed that career management was inversely related to career stagnation, while conversely demonstrating a direct, positive correlation with career commitment Also, Organizational career management and personal career tactics exerting the strongest indirect influence inverse career planning.

Recommendations: It is advisable to conduct regular evaluations of nurses' career-related requirements and perceptions to guarantee congruence between personal career aspirations and organizational goals.