title: Career commitment and job performance of Jordanian nurses.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Career commitment and job performance are complex phenomena that have received little attention in nursing research.
  
  
  METHODS
  A survey was used to assess nurses' career commitment and job performance, and the relationship between the two concepts. Predictors of nurses' career commitment and job performance were also studied. A convenience sample of 640 Jordanian registered nurses was recruited from 24 teaching, governmental, and private hospitals.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nurses "agreed" on the majority of statements about career commitment, and they reported performing "well" their jobs. Using total scores, nurses were equal in their career commitment but they were different in their job performance; the highest mean was scored for nurses in private hospitals. Using the individual items of subscales, nurses were willing to be involved, on their own time, in projects that would benefit patient care. The correlation of the total scores of nurses' career commitment and job performance revealed the presence of a significant and positive relationship (r = .457). Nurses' job performance, gender, and marital status were the best predictors of nurses' career commitment: they explained 21.8% of variance of nurses' career commitment. Nurses' career commitment, time commitment, marital status, and years of experience in nursing were the best predictors of nurses' job performance: they explained 25.6% of variance of nurses' job performance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The lowest reported means of nurses' job performance require managerial interventions.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan. mmrayyan@hu.edu.jo
authors.forename: Majd T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Mrayyan
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Al-Faouri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002322:Career Mobility; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D005260:Female; D016304:Hospitals, Private; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007597:Jordan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D012044:Regression Analysis; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires