| Keywords |
Empathy; Critical thinking; Work performance; Nurses |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between empathic ability, critical thinking disposition, and nursing work performance and to identify the influencing factors to nursing work performance in clinical nurses. The participants were 144 nurses with more than 6 months of clinical career at the general hospital with more than 100 beds and less than 300 beds. Data were collected from September 15 to October 4, 2021, using structured questionnaires and analyzed using the SPSS 28.0 program. Nursing work performance of the subjects showed a significant positive correlation with critical thinking disposition(r=.48, p<.001). The factors affecting the subjects’ nursing work performance were total clinical career(β=.29, p=.017), critical thinking disposition(β=.28, p<.001), department(β=.18, p=.020), and education level(β=.18, p=.017) in that order. The total explanatory power of these variables on nursing work performance was 41.2%(F=6.96, p<.001). The results of this study show that the critical thinking disposition is a major factor affecting nursing work performance. Therefore, there is a need for long-term nursing staff management, such as providing continuous education to improve the critical thinking disposition of clinical nurses and supporting advanced education to develop professional careers. |