title: Assessing career commitment. The role of staff development.
abstract: Staff development and inservice educators may be called on to respond to their organizations' need to recruit and retain nurses. One important role is to promote professional commitment and loyalty. This article describes the Gardner Career Commitment Scale as a tool for use in human resources management and decision making to assess career commitment.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*